MetaButler

A modular telegram Python bot running on python3 with an sqlalchemy database.

Originally a Kigyo fork -

Can be found on telegram as MetaButler.

The Support group can be reached out to at MetaButler, where you can ask for help setting up your bot, discover/request new features, report bugs, and stay in the loop whenever a new update is available.

Setting up the bot (Read this before trying to use!):

How to setup

• clone this repository
• cd MetaButler
• cp sample_config.ini config.ini
• Fill in all the vars
• cp alembic_sample.ini alembic.ini
• Fill in sqlalchemy.url var (L#55) with the same value as SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI from config.ini
• pip3 install -U -r requirements.txt
• The following step is important, it introduces a new column to blacklist table:
• alembic upgrade head
• And finally python3 -m MetaButler

Enjoy!

How can I obtain bot_token?

Just talk to BotFather(described here) and follow a few simple steps. Once you've created a bot and received your authorization token, that's it! that's your bot_token.

How can I obtain a api_key and api_hash?

In order to obtain an API key and hash you need to do the following:

• Sign up for Telegram using any application.
• Login to your Telegram core: https://my.telegram.org.
• Go to 'API Development tools' and fill out the form.
• You will get basic addresses as well as the api_id and api_hash parameters required for Metabutler's configuration file.

Database

If you wish to use a database-dependent module(eg: locks, notes, userinfo, users, filters, welcomes), you'll need to have a database installed on your system. I use postgres, so I recommend using it for optimal compatibility.

In the case of postgres, this is how you would set up a the database on a debian/ubuntu system. Other distributions may vary.

• install postgresql:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install postgresql

• change to the postgres user:

sudo su - postgres

• create a new database user(change YOUR_USER appropriately):

createuser -P -s -e YOUR_USER

This will be followed by you needing to input your password.

• create a new database table:

createdb -O YOUR_USER YOUR_DB_NAME

Change YOUR_USER and YOUR_DB_NAME appropriately.

• finally:

psql YOUR_DB_NAME -h YOUR_HOST YOUR_USER

This will allow you to connect to your database via your terminal. By default, YOUR_HOST should be 0.0.0.0:5432.

You should now be able to build your database URI. This will be:

sqldbtype://username:pw@hostname:port/db_name

Replace sqldbtype with whichever db youre using(eg postgres, mysql, sqllite, etc) repeat for your username, password, hostname(localhost?), port(5432?), and db name.

Credits

The bot is based of on the original work done by

• PaulSonOfLars

Thanks to

• Dank-del
• SoapDev
• And many more that we couldn't list it here!