🤖📼 GIFMAKER: A Video to GIF Telegram Bot

💻 Installation

Note: the project has been only tested on Python 3.8. Feel free to submit a PR to fix any issues.

• Get your hands on pipenv if it's not already the case: pip install pipenv

• Clone the git repository on your machine: git clone https://github.com/sjfbo/video-to-gif-telegram-bot

• Create your virtual environment and install the dependencies: pipenv install

• Activate it and play with the project: pipenv shell

The application requires two environment variables:

• BOT_TOKEN the token that Telegram gave you when you created your bot instance through Botfather.
• WEB_HOST the URL of the server hosting your application.

The webserver running the bot and offering the route for the webhook might run over HTTPS as it is a requirement from Telegram. A practical way to easily play with the bot on your local is to use ngrok and run it in parallel with your application.

On your local machine, the port on which ngrok should be launched is the one on which your application is listening to, by default for Flask it's the port 5000: ./ngrok http 5000.

Once ngrok configured and launched, get the HTTPS URL provided in the output of the previous command. Set it as the value of the WEB_HOST environment variable and that's it.

🐛 Contributing

Feel free to report issues and submit patches. Thank you!