tg-podcastotron

A Telegram bot that allows you to create your own podcast feeds from magnet links. Please note that it is intended strictly for legal content and is in no way intended to be used for piracy.

How to use

• You send the bot a magnet link
• The bot downloads the torrent (you will be able to select which files to download)
• The bot converts the files to mp3 (optionally glues them together)
• The bot uploads the files to S3
• The bot creates a podcast feed for you and uploads it to S3
• The bot sends you the link to the podcast feed
• You can add the podcast feed to your podcast app of choice

What is needed to run this bot

• mediary instance
• S3 bucket (minio won't work out of the box, but PRs are welcome)
• Redis instance (I've chosen to use Redis as default database solely because you can find a free Redis instance)
• Telegram bot token

Configuration

Bot is configured via environment variables, here is a table:

Variable	Description
MEDIARY_URL	Root endpoint of mediary, my media downloader-encoder-uploader
REDIS_URL	Full redis://username:password@host:port/db kind of URL. This redis will be used for storage
REDIS_URL_BG_JOBS	Full redis://username:password@host:port/db kind of URL. This redis will be used for background jobs
BOT_TOKEN	Telegram bot token obtained from @BotFather
ADMIN_USERNAME	Telegram username of a person who will be considered admin. This person can grant access to another users
AWS_BUCKET_NAME	S3 bucket to store media files and actual podcast feeds
AWS_REGION	AWS region for S3 bucket
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID	AWS access key id which has access to configured bucket
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY	AWS secret access key for provided AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
USER_PATH_SECRET	Just some secret string. We will use it to make user directories unguessable

Running locally

• cp .env.example .env and fill in missing values
• docker-compose up -d to bring up Redis, mediary and fake s3 (localstack). If you use Docker for Mac, it won't work, I recommend using colima
• make run will run the bot

Contribution and Support

If you want to contribute to this project or need help with running it, please contact me on Telegram: https://t.me/podcast_o_tron