Telegram bot that posting random photos and compilations to your channel 🖼.

A working example can be found at @scievo channel, subscribe pls ^^

1. Automatic posting photos at random intervals;
2. Colour-based compilations of photos;
3. ❤️ buttons with a counter for posts;
4. Management via telegram bot;
5. Channel insights;
6. Add new pictures on the fly by sending them to the bot.

Get the docker image:

docker pull iriscot/autoposter

Run the container with environment vars matching your config, an example env-file provided:

docker run --env-file env.file iriscot/autoposter

Alternatively, you can simply export env-variables and run app.py in python.

Settings are made using environment variables. You can find sample config in env.file.

Telegram settings

• TG_TOKEN - A bot token. Obtain one from @botfather. This bot must have admin rights in your channel;
• CHANNEL_ID - ID or @username of your channel. You must use ID if your channel is private;
• SUDO_USERS - List of bot administrators, separated with a semicolon. The first user in the list receives system announcements.

Posting Bot posts at random times between those intervals:

• POSTING_RATE_MIN - Minimum posting interval, in minutes;
• POSTING_RATE_MAX - Maximum posting interval, in minutes;
• COMPILATION_NUM - Maximum number of photos in colour-compilation.

System

• DATABASE_CONN - Database connection string. See: https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/13/core/engines.html If you are a using file-backed SQLite database, you have to set check_same_thread to false.