affection-x-bot

Creates posts on X from messages on Telegram. Supports images and video but limited to 512mb and 140 seconds.

Getting Started

• Clone the repo
• Open the app folder
• Rename sample.env to .env
• Set your Telegram Admin ID. This is an integer value representing your main account.
• Enter your Telegram bot token from @botfather
• Enter your Telegram App ID and App Hash from my.telegram.org
• Enter your X username and access/consumer/client credentials from the Developer Portal

Bare Metal

• Type pip install -r requirements.txt to install dependencies
• Follow the instructions below to authenticate with X
• Run by typing python main.py

Docker

• Run by typing docker compose up -d in the repo's root folder
• Enter the docker container by typing docker exec -it affection-x-bot bash
• Follow the instructions below to authenticate with X
• Press CTRL+D to exit the container

X

You will need both v1 and v2 API credentials from the Developer Portal

• Run python login-to-x.py to authorize your X account with the bot
• Copy the the URL and authorize your X account using a browser
• It will redirect you to a localhost URL. Copy/paste that URL back into the auth script and press enter. It will save your X credentials to the data folder

Telegram

This bot only works for supergroups (public). You will need a bot token from @botfather + a custom app created using my.telegram.org

• Add the bot to your supergroup as admin