Telegram photoframe is a Web application that uses telegram to display your prefered group or channel as Photoframe. The app is in fact a telegram client and doesn't require any bot, just login with your mobile phone via QR code and select the group or conversation that you want to display.
The app is a React application that uses TDLib, specifically the wasm version called tdweb.
To deploy your own version login here and create an app: https://core.telegram.org/api/obtaining_api_id
Then copy the two keys in the .env file by following the example of .env.example To run the app locally, install all the dependencies:
npm i
Copy the tdweb wasm files to a loadable path for your app, we use public:
cp node_modules/tdweb/dist/ ./public
The start the app:
npm start
To build a static version run:
npm run build
To deploy the app, modify the PUBLIC_URL in package.json and deploy it to GitHub pages for free:
npm run deploy