Telegram bio updater

What it does

1. With a given frequency, it updates your bio with a Yoda's quote of $\leq 70$ characters

2. Does not make you always online

Run

1. You need your telegram api_id and api_hash.

   • Create your telegram app here
   • Copy hash and id:
   • Do not share it with anyone!

2. Install Docker

3. Set it to rootless mode

4. Open a terminal

Run via DockerHub

5. Create a directory and a file for settings

   mkdir my_dir
   cd my_dir
   touch settings.env
   printf '%s\n' \
     'API_ID=YOUR_API_ID_HERE'\
     'API_HASH=YOUR_API_HASH_HERE'\
     'PERIOD=UPDATE_PERIOD_IN_MINUTES'\
     > settings.env
   

6. Put your settings there

7. Pull the image and start docker in detached (`-d`) mode

   docker pull dademd/bio-faker-tg
   docker run -d --env-file settings.env dademd/bio-faker-tg
   

8. Find out the container name and follow its logs

   docker logs -f $(docker run -d --env-file settings.env dademd/bio-faker-tg)
   

   or

   $ docker container ls
   CONTAINER ID   IMAGE                 COMMAND                  CREATED         STATUS         PORTS     NAMES
   bb4bc01762ab   dademd/bio-faker-tg   "/bin/sh -c 'python …"   5 minutes ago   Up 5 minutes             magical_kirch
   $ docker logs -f magical_kirch
   

Run from sources

5. Clone this repo

   git clone https://github.com/br4ch1st0chr0n3/bio-faker-tg
   cd bio-faker-tg

6. Copy template settings file

   cp settings.template.env settings.env

7. Put your settings into `settings.env`
8. Start the app. You will have to establish a session. This will create a sessions/account1.session file. Using this file everyone can access your account. Do not share this file with anyone!

   sh source_start.sh

References

• python.analysis.diagnosticSeverityOverrides (see here) to show import errors

• cache python packages: src

• docker variables: src