Telegram Publisher

Disclamer: I am not responsible for any error caused by this free software. Use it under your own responsability.

It is a software that is able to publish to a Telegram group (and its Topics if it has).

How to use it

• download from https://github.com/xavi-developer/telegram-publisher/releases folder the version that coresponds to your Operating System
• execute the file
• if you want to use it in the terminal, run the software with --help parameter for more information

What does it do

It allows to:

• select a media folder to get content to publish
• set the bot id (see below how to get one if you haven't any)
• set the group id (see below how to get one if you haven't any)
• set how many items will be published every time it is run (script selects them randomly)
• set the periodicity of the publications (only GUI version, for CLI version use a cron)

Take into account telegram publication limits: https://core.telegram.org/bots/faq#my-bot-is-hitting-limits-how-do-i-avoid-this

• when a content is published, it is moved into "published" folder in order to have a backup and not publish it again

configuration

create a bot

go to telegram and search for Bot Father. Follow the steps to get the token.

create a group

• create a group
• add the bot created before (by its username)
• send a message to the bot inside the roup (@my_media_publisher_bot hello)
• get to https://api.telegram.org/bot/getUpdates
  • it might take some minutes, but it will appear a json
  • chat id is: result.message.chat.id (it's a negative number, -100XXX)

media folder

it is the absolute path of the folder where the content you want to publish is in

group with Topics

If your group has topics (you can enable it in the group settings), your media folder will need subfolders with this naming format: TOPIC_ID TOPIC_NAME Example: "314 First topic" (TOPIC_NAME doesn't need to be the same as in Telegram Group, it's just for local reference)

IMPORTANT! TOPIC_ID number 1 is the default general topic and it can't be used to autopublication

To get the ID of a topic, go to Telegram web, navigate to the topic, and in the url to will see something like: https://web.telegram.org/a/#-100XXX_3 In this case, suffix "_3" indicates that "3" is the ID of the Topic.

modify this software

Disclamer

• I have 25 years of experience as a developer, but this software is chatGPT-made in 2 hours and I am not really into python
• Consider making a Pull Request if you add something useful

install python

ubuntu

sudo apt install python3

windows

• install python from: https://www.python.org/downloads/
• add path to Environment variables:
  • find you path to python scripts, similar to: C:\Users\YourName\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python3x\Scripts
  • win + S
  • System Variables - environment variables - edit "PATH" variable
  • add two new rows:
    • one new one with your python scripts path
    • another one with the same but without final Scripts folder
• remove python aliases:
  • win + S: aliases (app execution aliases)
  • disable python and python3

install dependencies

execute:

pip install PyQt5 python-telegram-bot pyinstaller

if you use more dependencies, you'll have to install them

modify the code

make the changes to main.py file

you can test it by running

python main.py

generate executable distribution

By running the following command in different OS (Windows, Linux, MAC) it will generate a dist_$OS folder with the final executable

python build.py