EscarBot

Earthbound Café’s custom delivery bot with other cool utilities built-in.

Features

1. The bot’s main feature is listening for posts in a channel and forwarding them to a group.
2. If the bot receives a private message, it will be forwarded to the bot’s admin.
3. If the bot senses an Instagram, Twitter (X) or YouTube link, it will try to send a custom link with better thumbnail generation.

How to use

Copy the .env.example file into .env and insert the following info: * token: your Telegram Bot Token; * channel_id: the channel the bot will listen to; * group_id: the group that will receive the channel messages; * admin_id: the user that will receive the bot’s private messages.

With poetry

1. Install dependencies: poetry install;
2. Start the bot: poetry run python escarbot.

With virtualenv

Create a new virtual environment and install required packages:

python -m virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Then, start the bot: python main.py.