efb-telegram-master 2.0.0b20

Telegram Master Channel for EH Forwarder Bot, based on Telegram Bot API.

EFB Telegram Master Channel (ETM)
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**Channel ID**: ``blueset.telegram``

ETM is a Telegram Master Channel for EH Forwarder Bot, based on Telegram
Bot API, ``python-telegram-bot``.

Beta version
-------------

This is an unstable beta version, and its functionality may change at any
time.

Requirements
------------

- Python >= 3.6
- EH Forwarder Bot >= 2.0.0
- ffmpeg
- libmagic
- libwebp

Getting Started
---------------

1. Install all required binary dependencies
2. Install ETM

.. code:: shell

pip3 install efb-telegram-master

3. Enable ETM in the profile’s ``config.yaml``

The path of your profile storage directory depends on your
configuration.

**(As of EFB 2.0.0a1: Default profile storage directory is located at**
``~/.ehforwarderbot/profiles/default`` **)**

3. Configure the channel (described as follows)

Configuration
-------------

Set up a bot
~~~~~~~~~~~~

Create a bot with `@BotFather`_, give it a name and a username.
Then you'll get a token, which will be used later. Keep this
token secure, as it gives who owns it the full access to the
bot.

.. _@BotFather: https://t.me/botfather

Use ``/setjoingroups`` to allow your bot to join groups.
Use ``/setprivacy`` to disable the privacy restriction
of the bot, so that it can receive all messages in the
group.

Complete configuration file
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Configuration file is stored at
``<profile directory>/blueset.telegram/config.yaml``.

A sample config file can be as follows:

.. code:: yaml

##################
# Required items #
##################
# You are required to fill the option below,
# or this channel will not work.

# Telegram bot token.
# This is the token you obtained from BotFather
token: "12345678:1a2b3c4d5e6g7h8i9j"

# List of Telegram User IDs of admins
# ETM will only process messages and commands from users
# listed below. This ID can be obtained from various ways
# on Telegram.
admins:
- 102938475
- 91827364

# Experimental Flags
# This section can be used to enable experimental functionality.
# However, those features may be changed or removed at any time.
# Options in this section is explained afterward.
flags:
option_one: 10
option_two: false
option_three: "foobar"

.. Removal of Speech recognition
##################
# Optional items #
##################
# The following options are optional. Omission of this section
# will only affect an additional part of functionality of
# this channel.
# API tokens required for speech recognition
speech_api:
# Microsoft (Bing) speech recognition token
# API key can be obtained from
# https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/try/cognitive-services/
bing: "VOICE_RECOGNITION_TOKEN"
# Baidu speech recognition token
# API key can be obtained from
# http://yuyin.baidu.com/
baidu:
app_id: 123456
api_key: "API_KEY_GOES_HERE"
secret_key: "SECRET_KEY_GOES_HERE"

Usage
-----

At the beginning, messages from all senders will be sent to the user
directly, that means every message will be mixed in the same
conversation. By linking a chat, you can redirect messages from a
specific sender to an empty group for a more organized conversation.

In a nutshell, ETM offers the following commands, you can also send it
to BotFather for a command list::

help - Show commands list.
link - Link a remote chat to a group.
unlink_all - Unlink all remote chats from a group.
info - Display information of the current Telegram chat.
chat - Generate a chat head.
extra - Access additional features from Slave Channels.
update_info - Update the group name and profile picture.

.. note::

In case of multiple admins are assigned, they may all send message on
your behalf, but only the 0th admin can receive direct message from
the bot.

``/link``: Link a chat
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

1. Create a new group, invite your bot to the group
2. Send ``/link`` directly to the bot, then select your preferred slave
chat.
3. Tap “Link” and select your new group.
*You can also choose to unlink or relink a linked chat from this
menu.*
4. Tap “Start” at the bottom of your screen, and you should see a
success message: “Chat associated.”

.. note::

You may introduce non-ETM admin users to the group, however, they:

- Can read all messages send from the related remote chat;
- May NOT send message on your behalf.

If the “Link” button doesn’t work for you, you may try the “Manual
Link/Relink” button. To manually link a remote chat:

1. Add the bot to the group you want to link to
2. Copy the code provided by the bot, and send it to the group.
3. If the group is linked successfully, you would receive a confirmation
from the bot.

Also, you can send ``/unlink_all`` to a group to unlink all remote chats
from it.

Send a message
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Send to a linked chat
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

You can send message as you do in a normal Telegram chat.

What is supported:

- Send/forward message in all supported types
- Direct reply to a message
- Send message with inline bot in supported types

What is NOT supported:

- @ reference
- Markdown/HTML formatting
- Messages with unsupported types

Send to a non-linked chat
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

To send a message to a non-linked chat, you should “direct reply” to a
message or a “chat head” that is sent from your recipient. Those
messages should appear only in the bot conversation.

In a non-linked chat, direct reply will not be delivered to the remote
channel, everything else is supported as it does in a linked chat.

Edit and delete message
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

In EFB v2, the framework added support to message editing and removal,
and so does ETM. However, due to the limitation of Telegram Bot API,
although you may have selected “Delete from the bot”, or “Delete from
everyone” while deleting messages, the bot would not know anything about
it. Therefore, if you want your message to be removed from a remote
chat, edit your message and prepend it with rm\` (it’s R, M, and ~\`,
not single quote), so that the bot knows that you want to remote the
message.

Please also notice that some channels may not support editing and/or
deleting messages depends on their implementations.

``/chat``: Chat head
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

If you want to send a message to a non-linked chat which has not yet
sent you a message, you can ask ETM to generate a “chat head”. Chat head
works similarly to an incoming message, you can reply to it to send
messages to your recipient.

Send ``/chat`` to the bot, and choose a chat from the list. When you see
“Reply to this message to send to from ”, it’s ready to go.

Advanced feature: Filtering
'''''''''''''''''''''''''''

If you have just too much chats, and being too tired for keep tapping
``Next >``, or maybe you just want to find a way to filter out what
you’re looking for, now ETM has equipped ``/chat`` and ``/list`` with
filtering feature. Attach your keyword behind, and you can get a
filtered result.

E.g.: ``/chat Eana`` will give you all chats has the word “Eana”.

.. admonition:: Technical Details

The filter query is in fact a regular expression matching. We used
Python’s ``re.search`` with flags ``re.DOTALL | re.IGNORECASE`` in
this case, i.e.: ``.`` matches everything including line breaks, and
the query is NOT case-sensitive. Each comparison is done against a
specially crafted string which allows you to filter multiple criteria.

::

Channel: <Channel name>
Name: <Chat name>
Alias: <Chat Alias>
ID: <Chat Unique ID>
Type: (User|Group)
Mode: [[Muted, ]Linked]
Other: <Python Dictionary String>


.. note::

Type can be either “User” or “Group”

Other is the vendor specific information provided by slave channels.
Format of such information is specified in their documentations
respectively.



Examples:

- Look for all WeChat groups: ``Channel: WeChat.*Type: Group``
- Look for everyone who has an alias ``Name: (.*?)\nAlias: (?!\1)``
- Look for all entries contain “John” and “Jonny” in any order:
``(?=.*John)(?=.*Jonny)"``

``/extra``: External commands from slave channels (“additonal features”)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Some slave channels may provide commands that allows you to remotely
control those accounts, and achieve extra functionality, those commands
are called “additional features”. To view the list of available extra
functions, send ``/extra`` to the bot, you will receive a list of
commands available, together with their usages.

Those commands are named like “\ ``/<number>_<command_name>``\ ”, and can be
called like a Linux/unix CLI utility. (of course, please don’t expect
piping etc to be supported)

.. Deprecated feature
.
``/recog``: Speech recognition
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
.
If you have entered a speech recognition service API keys, you can use
it to convert speech in voice messages into text.
.
Reply any voice messages in a conversation with the bot, with the
command ``/recog``, and the bot will try to convert it to text using
those speech recognition services enabled.
.
If you know the language used in this message, you can also attach the
language code to the command for a more precise conversion.
.
Supported language codes:
.
+-----------+-----------+---------------------------+
| Code | Baidu | Bing |
+===========+===========+===========================+
| en, en-US | English | English (US) |
+-----------+-----------+---------------------------+
| zh, zh-CN | Mandarin | Mandarin (China Mainland) |
+-----------+-----------+---------------------------+
| ct | Cantonese | \- |
+-----------+-----------+---------------------------+
| de-DE | \- | German |
+-----------+-----------+---------------------------+
| ru-RU | \- | Russian |
+-----------+-----------+---------------------------+
| ja-JP | \- | Japanese |
+-----------+-----------+---------------------------+
| ar-EG | \- | Arabic |
+-----------+-----------+---------------------------+
| es-ES | \- | Spanish (Spain) |
+-----------+-----------+---------------------------+
| pt-BR | \- | Portuguese (Brazil) |
+-----------+-----------+---------------------------+
| fr-FR | \- | French (France) |
+-----------+-----------+---------------------------+

``/update_info``: Update name and profile picture of linked group
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

EFB can help you to update the name and profile picture of a group to
match with appearance in the remote chat.

This functionality is available when:

* This command is sent to a group
* The bot is an admin of the group (“Everyone is admin” will not work
in this case)
* The group is linked to **exactly** one remote chat
* The remote chat is accessible

Profile picture will not be set if it’s not available from the slave
channel.

Telegram Channel support
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

ETM supports linking remote chats to Telegram Channels with partial
support.

The bot can:

- Link one or more remote chats to a Telegram Channel
- Check and manage link status of the channel
- Let the bot to update channel title and profile pictures accordingly

It cannot:

- Process messages sent by you or others to the channel
- Accept commands in the channel

Currently the following commands are supported in channels:

- ``/start`` for manual chat linking
- ``/link`` to manage groups linked to the channel
- ``/info`` to show information of the channel
- ``/update_info`` to update the channel title and picture

How to use:

1. Add the bot as an administrator of the channel
2. Send commands to the channel
3. Forward the command message to the bot privately

Experimental flags
------------------

The following flags are experimental features, may change, break, or
disappear at any time. Use at your own risk.

Flags can be enabled in the ``flags`` key of the configuration file,
e.g.:

.. code:: yaml

flags:
flag_name: flag_value

- ``no_conversion`` *(bool)* [Default: ``false``]

Disable audio conversion, send all audio file as is, and let Telegram
to handle it.

*Only works in linked chats.*

- ``chats_per_page`` *(int)* [Default: ``10``]

Number of chats shown in when choosing for ``/chat`` and ``/link``
command. An overly large value may lead to malfunction of such
commands.

- ``network_error_prompt_interval`` *(int)* [Default: ``100``]

Notify the user about network error every ``n`` errors received. Set
to 0 to disable it.

- ``multiple_slave_chats`` *(bool)* [Default: ``true``]

Link more than one remote chat to one Telegram group. Send and reply
as you do with an unlinked chat. Disable to link remote chats and
Telegram group one-to-one.

- ``prevent_message_removal`` *(bool)* [Default: ``true``]

When a slave channel requires to remove a message, EFB will ignore
the request if this value is ``true``.

- ``auto_locale`` *(str)* [Default: ``true``]

Detect the locale from admin's messages automatically. Locale
defined in environment variables will be used otherwise.

- ``retry_on_error`` *(bool)* [Default: ``false``]

Retry infinitely when an error occurred while sending request
to Telegram Bot API. Note that this may lead to repetitive
message delivery, as the respond of Telegram Bot API is
not reliable, and may not reflect the actual result.

- ``send_image_as_file`` *(bool)* [Default: ``false``]

Send all image messages as files, in order to prevent Telegram's
image compression in an aggressive way.

Experimental localization support
---------------------------------

ETM supports localized user interface prompts experimentally.
The bot detects languages of Telegram Client of the admins
from their messages, and automatically matches with a supported
language on the go. Otherwise, you can set your language by
turning off the ``auto_locale`` feature, and then setting
the locale environmental variable (``LANGUAGE``,
``LC_ALL``, ``LC_MESSAGES`` or ``LANG``) to one of our
supported languages. Meanwhile, you can help to translate
this project into your languages on `our Crowdin page`_.

.. _our Crowdin page: https://crowdin.com/project/ehforwarderbot/