Telegram bot for matterbridge Telegram channel highlights

This was a cool idea and works as concept but unfortunately cannot be used because Telegram does not allow seeing bot messages.

The gateway bot matterbridge doesn't know how to map users with Telegram nicks so the highlights don't work on Telegram side. This bot aims to fix that.

Requirements

• Python 3.8
• pipenv
• Linux/WSL
• python-telegram-bot

Installation

1. Create your bot via BotFather
2. Set up at least with /newbot, /setdescription, /setname and /setuserpic.
3. Set up command options with /setcommands:
4. Disable privacy mode with /setprivacy, if this is not set the bot cannot reply to a channel
5. Add your personal bot TOKEN to .env file
6. Run pipenv install -r requirements.txt (sudo might be needef or WSL)
7. Run pipenv run python bot.py