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 plain text. The ids's file must contain an ID in each line of the document (separated by "\n")

From the interpreter:

help(telegramgetbotip)