user1man / telegram-mastodon-bridge

Forward messages from telegram channels to mastodon

Telebridge

Telegram/Mastodon bot for forwarding messages.

Usage

• Create a telegram bot
• • Recieve telegram's access token
• Create a mastodon bot
• • Give it the rights to write statuses
• • Save mastodon's access token
• Add your Telegram bot to the channels you need as admin
• Clone the repo
• Install Docker and docker-compose
• Add a .env file with this env vars:
  • MASTODON_TOKEN=Your_Mastodon_access_token
  • TELEGRAM_TOKEN=Your_Telegram_token
  • MASTODON_INSTANCE=https://yourinstance.social
  • MASTODON_VISIBILITY=public
  • MASTODON_CHARACTER_LIMIT=500
• Run the bot: docker-compose up --build -d
• Bot will start forwarding posts

Limitations

• Only reposts plain text(mastodon limitation), images, and videos
• Image galleries are published as separate posts(telebot library limitation)

References

• Telegram bot API documentation
• Mastodon bot API documentation