Telegram bot that utilize youtube-dl functionality for downloading video directly to telegram. Simple clone of https://t.me/ytdownloaddbot .

Install ffmpeg and python3.

Python3 dependencies install via pip3 install -r requirements.txt

For running required phone number for bypassing telegram bot api upload files limitation to 50 MB.

Set the following enviroment variables:

1. Bot token(from Bot Father): BOT_API_TOKEN

2. Chat id between bot and agent (regular client with phone number for bypass limit in 50MB): BOT_AGENT_CHAT_ID

3. Chat id between agent(regular client with phone number for bypass limit in 50MB) and bot: CHAT_WITH_BOT_ID

4. Api id (https://core.telegram.org/api/obtaining_api_id): API_ID

5. Api hash (https://core.telegram.org/api/obtaining_api_id): API_HASH

6. Telegram client session string for telethon StringSession: CLIENT_SESSION

7. IBM Cloudant credentials: CLOUDANT_USERNAME, CLOUDANT_PASSWORD, CLOUDANT_URL (can be easily replaced with CouchDB: read https://python-cloudant.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting_started.html)

Note: for deploying you must set also webhook url via calling https://api.telegram.org/bot<bot-token>/setWebhook?url=<webhook-url> (webhook-url path is bot_domanin+/bot like mybot.com/bot) Use master branch if you want to use polling instead.