Telegram media bot

Telegram bot written in rust for aliasing different media (currently only stickers are supported).

How it works

Initially, no aliases are specified. They can be added using /add command, which starts an addition process:

After that, you can use specified aliases enclosed in colons in your messages. The bot will send the associated media to the chat:

The bot is (hopefully still) running at http://t.me/textmedia_bot.

Add it to a chat (or start a conversation in PM)
(If using in chat) Give admin rights if you wish all messages in the chat to be seen.
Use it according to /start and /help

Older versions may work, however they were not tested.

You can download precompiled binaries from releases page or build the project by yourself.

Before launching the bot make sure to

Type cargo install --git https://github.com/bragov4ik/tg-media-bot.git
Run the bot using tg-media-bot command (if cargo installation folder is in your PATH)

Or compile using any other method like cargo run --release

There is one optional argument - Redis address. You should specify only the address itself, without redis:// prefix.

Usage example: tg-media-bot 127.0.0.1

If any bugs related to the code were found, create an issue with its description.

Kind of sorted according to importance (higher - more preferable)

add proper (unit) tests
add support for any media
inline search
more elegant way to handle common commands
marking symbol specification (colons may cause conflict) however can be avoided right now by not giving admin rights to the bot, so it does not see all the messages
resolve TODOs (not critical, just better practices)