telegramgetbotip 0.1.4

Python3 telegram bot to retrieve public IP of the Telegram bot's host machine.

telegramgetbotip

Python3 telegram bot to retrieve public IP of the Telegram bot's host machine.

Rationale:

Sometimes a DynDNS is an overkill. This bot is designed to cover the use case where you just need the IP of a network.

Installation

Install with pip

python3.8 -m pip install --user -U telegramgetbotip

Usage

From shell:

$ python3.8 telegramgetbotip -h
usage: telegramgetbotip [-h] [-v] [-t TOKENFILE] [-i IDSFILE] [-d DELTA]

Telegram Bot to get the public IP where the bot is hosted on.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -v, --verbose         Verbosity.
  -t TOKENFILE, --tokenfile TOKENFILE
                        Bot token file.
  -i IDSFILE, --idsfile IDSFILE
                        Allowed Telegram IDs file.
  -d DELTA, --delta DELTA
                        Time between queries.

The Bot Token file must contain the bot ID in JSON format. { "token": "token_string" (str) }

The ids's file must contain the IDs in JSON format. { "name": id (int) }

You can get your Telegram ID from @userinfobot You can register your Telegram Bot from @BotFather

From the interpreter:

help(telegramgetbotip)