vidfetch-bot 0.4.4

This bot watches messages for URLs then passes those to yt-dlp for processing and download. It then replies to the message containing the URL with the video embedded.

VidFetch_Bot

Are you sick of your friends sending you links to TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube only to have to navigate the maze of app download and account signup redirects and popups?

Just add this bot to your group's Telegram meme chat. (Or if they're using a better messaging service just DM the bot the links.)

How to run

Examples of how to run the bot

Docker

TODO

Quadlet

If the system you're wanting to run on has Podman>=5 installed you can use Quadlets. Create a file vidfetch-bot.container and place it in /etc/containers/systemd/.

[Unit]
Description=A Telegram bot

[Container]
Image=ghcr.io/arthurlt/vidfetch_bot:latest
Environment="BOT_TOKEN=<INSERT_YOUR_BOT_TOKEN_HERE>"
Pull=newer
#AutoUpdate=registry

[Service]
Restart=always
TimeoutStartSec=300

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target default.target

Kubernetes

TODO

systemd

TODO

Develop

Supply your bot's API token via environment variable BOT_TOKEN.

TODO:

• Rewrite to use yt-dlp as library
• Move Docker image build/publish to workflow.yaml
• Improve README
• Add/improve docstrings
• Add (more) unit tests
• Improve CI vs CD workflows
• Enable 'strict' checking for pyright (unsure how to handle yt-dlp)
• Shrink container image