hacker-h / youtube-telegram-downloader

This is a Telegram bot which automatically downloads videos or streams, extracts the audiotrack and uploads it to your online storage backend.

youtube-telegram-downloader

This is a selfhosted Telegram bot which is supposed to download any Videos or Streams compatible with youtube-dl. The audiotrack of this video will be extracted and uploaded to one of your storage backends.

Getting Started

Create your Telegram bot

Setting up your own Telegram bot is straight forward according to the Telegram bots documentation.

Insert the bot token you obtained during setup of your Telegram bot into the bot.env file.

Install the Telegram Messenger on a system of your choice and search for your bot as a contact to create a conversation.

Setting up your backend

Google Drive

Follow the instructions on setting up PyDrive Authentication. Insert client_id and client_secret into the settings.yaml template:

# since this step is annoying to do manually, you can simply run this short shell script to do it
cp settings.yaml.example settings.yaml &&\
CLIENT_ID=$(cat client_secrets.json | grep client_id | cut -d'"' -f4)
CLIENT_SECRET=$(cat client_secrets.json | grep client_secret | cut -d'"' -f4)
sed -i "s/YOUR_CLIENT_ID/${CLIENT_ID}/g" settings.yaml &&\
sed -i "s/YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET/${CLIENT_SECRET}/g" settings.yaml

Run the Telegram bot

Option 1: as a Docker container

Use the provided docker-compose.yml file, which automatically mounts your configs into the container:

git clone https://github.com/hacker-h/youtube-telegram-downloader.git &&\
cd youtube-telegram-downloader &&\
docker-compose up -d

Option 2: on your system

Install ffmpeg on your system and make sure it is available in your system PATH.

Setup a python3 environment (e.g. with virtualenv) and source it.:

virtualenv -p python3 ~/.venv/youtube-telegram-downloader &&\
source ~/.venv/youtube-telegram-downloader/bin/activate &&\

# Clone the repository and install all dependencies:
git clone https://github.com/hacker-h/youtube-telegram-downloader.git &&\
pip3 install -r ./youtube-telegram-downloader/requirements.txt &&\

# Run the bot:
python3 ./bot.py

Secure your bot against unauthorized access

By default the bot trusts anybody sending messages to him hence TRUSTED_USER_IDS is unset (equivalent to absence of the environment variable). To adapt this behaviour you can obtain your user id from the bot with the whoami command or 'whoami' as a plain text message. Now add TRUSTED_USER_IDS to your bot.env file and set it to your user id or a comma separated list(CSV) of multiple user ids, e.g.:

TRUSTED_USER_IDS=12345,13579,24680

Note that if TRUSTED_USER_IDS is set the bot will not reply to any users which's ids are not contained; this also concerns the whoami command.

Usage

1. Make sure that your bot is running as described in the previous steps.

2. Send the bot a link to a video you want to be downloaded, e.g. a Youtube URL.

3. Choose Download Best Format.

4. Choose Audio.

5. Choose Google Drive.

6. Watch the bot downloading, converting and uploading your video.

To be updated according to the implemented features..

Features

• Interact with the user
• Automatically download videos from URL provided via message
  • Code cleanup
  • Audio Quality selectable
  • Audio Format selectable
  • Audio Quality Default Value selectable
  • Audio Format Default Value selectable
  • Handle Video Playlists
  • Handle multiple URLs in one message
  • Use multiple threads for more performance
• Automatically upload downloaded video to a remote backend
  • Google Drive
    • remote directory path is configurable
  • Overcast
• Secure your bot against unauthorized access
• Bot can be run as a Container Image
• Container Image available on Docker Hub