Telegram Bot for Controlling Various Things Remotely

With this bot, you can systemctl start/stop services

and list/add/remove/delete torrents through your Transmission daemon.

0. Prepare

Install Go and generate your Telegram bot's API token.

1. Install

$ git clone https://github.com/meinside/telegram-remotecontrol-bot.git
$ cd telegram-remotecontrol-bot
$ go build

or

$ go install github.com/meinside/telegram-remotecontrol-bot@latest

2. Configure

Put your config.json file in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/telegram-remotecontrol-bot/ directory:

$ mkdir -p ~/.config/telegram-remotecontrol-bot/
$ cp config.json.sample ~/.config/telegram-remotecontrol-bot/config.json
$ vi config.json

and edit values to yours:

{
  "available_ids": [
    "telegram_id_1",
    "telegram_id_2",
    "telegram_id_3"
  ],
  "controllable_services": [
    "vpnserver"
  ],
  "monitor_interval": 3,
  "transmission_rpc_port": 9999,
  "transmission_rpc_username": "some_user",
  "transmission_rpc_passwd": "some_password",
  "cli_port": 59992,
  "is_verbose": false,

  "api_token": "0123456789:abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwyz-x-0a1b2c3d4e"
}

When following values are omitted, default values will be applied:

• monitor_interval: 3 seconds
• transmission_rpc_port: 9091
• transmission_rpc_username or transmission_rpc_passwd: no username and password (eg. when rpc-authentication-required = false)

Using Infisical

You can also use Infisical for retrieving your bot api token:

{
  "available_ids": [
    "telegram_id_1",
    "telegram_id_2",
    "telegram_id_3"
  ],
  "controllable_services": [
    "vpnserver"
  ],
  "monitor_interval": 3,
  "transmission_rpc_port": 9999,
  "transmission_rpc_username": "some_user",
  "transmission_rpc_passwd": "some_password",
  "cli_port": 59992,
  "is_verbose": false,

  "infisical": {
    "client_id": "012345-abcdefg-987654321",
    "client_secret": "aAbBcCdDeEfFgG0123456789xyzwXYZW",

    "workspace_id": "012345abcdefg",
    "environment": "dev",
    "secret_type": "shared",

    "api_token_key_path": "/path/to/your/KEY_TO_API_TOKEN"
  }
}

3. Run

Run the built(or installed) binary with:

$ ./telegram-remotecontrol-bot
# or
$ $(go env GOPATH)/bin/telegram-remotecontrol-bot

4. Run as a service

a. systemd

$ sudo cp systemd/telegram-remotecontrol-bot.service /etc/systemd/system/
$ sudo vi /etc/systemd/system/telegram-remotecontrol-bot.service

and edit User, Group, WorkingDirectory and ExecStart values.

It will launch automatically on boot with:

$ sudo systemctl enable telegram-remotecontrol-bot.service

and will start with:

$ sudo systemctl start telegram-remotecontrol-bot.service

4. Broadcast to all connected clients

Install command line tool,

$ go install github.com/meinside/telegram-remotecontrol-bot/cmd/telegram-bot-broadcast@latest

and run:

$ $(go env GOPATH)/bin/telegram-bot-broadcast "SOME_MESSAGE_TO_BROADCAST"

then all connected clients who sent at least one message will receive this message.

999. License

MIT