Reddit to Telegram

This is a script that will send hot/new/top/rising posts from a subreddit to a Telegram channel.

Usage

From docker

Note

Requirements:

• Docker

1. Follow the setup instructions
2. Add your Telegram bot as an admin to the channels you want to bridge
3. Run the image replacing the volumes with the paths to your files:

docker run \
  --volume /path/to/.env:/app/.env \
  --volume /path/to/bridges.json:/app/bridges.json \
  --volume /path/to/db:/app/db \
  massolari/reddit-to-telegram:latest

Tip

You can create a shell script with the above command and run it as a cron job.

From source

Note

Requirements:

• Erlang
• Gleam
• ffmpeg

1. Clone this repository
2. Follow the setup instructions
3. Add your Telegram bot as an admin to the channels you want to bridge
4. Run the script:

gleam run

Setup

1. Create a .env file and fill in the values (you can use .env.example as a template):

# Your Reddit username and password
REDDIT_USERNAME=
REDDIT_PASSWORD=
# Reddit client ID and secret
# You can get these by creating an app on https://www.reddit.com/prefs/apps
# Make sure to set the app type to "script"
REDDIT_CLIENT_ID=
REDDIT_CLIENT_SECRET=
# Telegram bot token
# You can get this by creating a bot with @BotFather
TELEGRAM_TOKEN=

2. Create the file bridges.json and fill in the values for the subreddits and channels you want to bridge (you can use bridges.example.json as a template):

[
  {
    "subreddit": "gleamlang",
    "reddit_sort": "hot",
    "telegram_channel": "@r_gleam"
  }
]

Field	Description
subreddit	The subreddit to bridge in. It's the last part of the URL, for example, for the URL https://www.reddit.com/r/gleamlang the subreddit is gleamlang
reddit_sort	The sorting method to use when fetching posts from Reddit. Available options are hot, new, top and rising
telegram_channel	The Telegram channel to send the posts to. It's the channel username with the @ prefix, for example, for the URL https://t.me/r_gleam the channel is @r_gleam
minimum_upvotes	(Optional) The minimum number of upvotes a post must have to be sent to the channel. Default is 10