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https://github.com/luckydonald/pytg
Python package that wraps around Telegram messenger CLI. Send and receive messages, and more.
https://github.com/luckydonald/pytg
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Python package that wraps around Telegram messenger CLI. Send and receive messages, and more.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/luckydonald/pytg
- Owner: luckydonald
- License: mit
- Created: 2014-01-18T06:59:57.000Z (almost 11 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2021-09-20T22:11:10.000Z (over 3 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-12-13T12:11:26.611Z (10 days ago)
- Topics: bot, cli, pypi, pytg, python, receive-messages, sender, telegram, telegram-bot, telegram-cli
- Language: Python
- Homepage:
- Size: 436 KB
- Stars: 369
- Watchers: 28
- Forks: 76
- Open Issues: 60
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# **PyTg**
#### Version [0.4.10](https://github.com/luckydonald/pytg/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#changelog) ####
[](https://telegram.me/pytg_group) [](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytg) [](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytg/0.4.6/)
A Python package that communicates with the [Telegram messenger CLI](https://github.com/vysheng/tg), to send and receive messages and more. *Since January 2014*
[Telegram](https://telegram.org) is an Whatsapp like Instant messenger, with clients for virtually every device you use.
Works with Python 2.7 and 3
> I really recommend to use Python 3, because of it's build in unicode support.
Python 2 uses ascii only bytestrings, causing much, **much trouble** when dealing with characters like öäüß or emojis. (Trust me, I've been there)
~ luckydonald
### Alternative: [BotApi](https://github.com/luckydonald/pytgbot)
If you'd like to use the **Telegram Bot Api** instead, there also is [pytgbot](https://github.com/luckydonald/pytgbot).
It features a complete object oriented approach, mapping all the possible server responses. So you always know what attributes to expect.
## Content
- [Documentation](#documentation)
- [Install](#install)
- [Usage](#usage)
- [Contribute](#contribute)
- [In case of errors](#in-case-of-errors)
- [Verbose logging](#in-case-of-errors)
- [Examples](#examples)
## **Install**
### Dependencies
- ~~Install the Telegram CLI (from @vysheng), follow the [official Instructions](https://github.com/vysheng/tg)~~
- Install up to date fork of Telegram CLI (by @kenorb-contrib), follow the [Instructions](https://github.com/kenorb-contrib/tg) there.
### Pytg
##### Install form PyPI [](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytg)
```shell
pip install pytg
```
To upgrade append the ```--upgrade``` flag.
##### Install from source
(Beta versions are in the [development branch](https://github.com/luckydonald/pytg/tree/development))
- a) Get the latest pytg code from github.
```git clone https://github.com/luckydonald/pytg.git && cd pytg```
- b) To update already existing code, navigate to the root inside the pytg folder, then ```git pull```
- Install
```sudo python setup.py install```
- The dependency "[DictObject](https://github.com/luckydonald/DictObject)" should be installed automatically by this. If not, it is available on PyPI:
```sudo pip install DictObject```
- Same goes for "[luckydonaldUtils](https://github.com/luckydonald/luckydonald-utils)":
```sudo pip install luckydonald-utils```
Done.
## **Usage**
>***Note***: The examples files produce syntax errors for python 3.0 - 3.2, the pytg package itself is not affacted by this!
> To fix, just remove the ```u``` in front of the strings: change ```u"foobar"``` to ```"foobar``` (see [issue #39](https://github.com/luckydonald/pytg/issues/39#issuecomment-129992777) and [Python 3.3 accepts ```u'unicode'``` syntax again](https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.3.html?highlight=unicode)).
#### *Start* telegram
Create a Telegram Instance.
This will manage the CLI process, and registers the Sender and Receiver for you.
```python
from pytg import Telegram
tg = Telegram(
telegram="/path/to/tg/bin/telegram-cli",
pubkey_file="/path/to/tg/tg-server.pub")
receiver = tg.receiver
sender = tg.sender
```
If you don't want pytg to start the cli for you, start it yourself with ```--json -P 4458``` (port 4458).
You can then use the Receiver and/or the Sender like this:
```python
from pytg.sender import Sender
from pytg.receiver import Receiver
receiver = Receiver(host="localhost", port=4458)
sender = Sender(host="localhost", port=4458)
```
#### *Send* a message
```python
sender.send_msg("username", "Hello World!")
# Easy huh?
```
#### *Receiving* messages
You need a function as main loop.
```python
@coroutine # from pytg.utils import coroutine
def main_loop():
while not QUIT:
msg = (yield) # it waits until it got a message, stored now in msg.
print("Message: ", msg.text)
# do more stuff here!
#
#
```
Last step is to register that function:
```python
# start the Receiver, so we can get messages!
receiver.start()
# let "main_loop" get new message events.
# You can supply arguments here, like main_loop(foo, bar).
receiver.message(main_loop())
# now it will call the main_loop function and yield the new messages.
```
That's the basics. Have a look into the examples folder. For starters, I recommend:
* dump.py - is usefull to see, how the messages look like.
* ping.py - is usefull to see how to interact with pytg, send messages etc.
## More Documentation
The ```Sender``` object features a rich build-in help, inside the python interpreter type:
```python
from pytg.sender import Sender
help(Sender) # list all commands
help(Sender.get_self) # get help for a specific command
```
This is also availabe as [generated documentation](https://github.com/luckydonald/pytg/blob/master/DOCUMENTATION.md) here on github.
Also have a look at the [Changelog](https://github.com/luckydonald/pytg/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#changelog) to see what's going on.
To generate the documentation yourself:
```python
from pytg.sender import create_automatic_documentation; create_automatic_documentation()
```
You can also have a look at [the old documentation](https://github.com/luckydonald/pytg/blob/master/DOCUMENTATION_manual.md)
## Contribute
###### You can help!
* by [reporting issues](https://github.com/luckydonald/pytg/issues)
* by commiting patches/[pull requests](https://github.com/luckydonald/pytg/pulls)
* with testing
*Note: There is a version in the making, supporting the cli via socket (as before), the CLI via its build in python (aka. tgl) and brand new, the [Telegram bot api](https://github.com/luckydonald/pytgbot) as well.
Receiving messages is already possible with all three (even simultaneously).
Also it features neat classes for everything. Currently I lack the time to continue that.
See the develop branch for that. Maybe you can help make that happen.*
## In case of errors ##
First you should set logging to level `DEBUG` to see what's going on.
```python
# add this to the first lines in your file
import logging
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)
```
If you are about to open a new issue, search the existing ones (open and closed) first.
Sometimes they are already reported or even solved.
## Examples
There are some example scripts in the [examples folder](https://github.com/luckydonald/pytg/tree/master/examples):
- [command_send_message](https://github.com/luckydonald/pytg/blob/master/examples/command_send_message.py): Simplest way to just send a message.
- [command_who_am_i](https://github.com/luckydonald/pytg/blob/master/examples/command_who_am_i.py): A simple example printing infos about yourself
- get the **@username** etc.
- [command_dialog_list](https://github.com/luckydonald/pytg/blob/master/examples/command_dialog_list.py): Simpler example printing the list of chats you have.
- Shows how to execute commands like `dialog_list` on the CLI.
- [bot_dump](https://github.com/luckydonald/pytg/blob/master/examples/bot_dump.py): A small bot printing the `msg` message object.
- So you can see yourself how messages look like.
- [bot_ping](https://github.com/luckydonald/pytg/blob/master/examples/bot_ping.py): A simple bot reacting to messages.
- like the dump bot, but it responds to a `ping` with a `pong`.
- [bot_source_of_reply](https://github.com/luckydonald/pytg/blob/master/examples/bot_source_of_reply.py): When replying to any message with `#top`, the bot will show you the origin of that reply.
- This demonstrates how you could use `message_get` command and the `reply_id` information.
- [bot_with_context](https://github.com/luckydonald/pytg/blob/master/examples/bot_with_context.py): Talk to a bot, not only a simple command.
- Demonstrates how to build converations with the use of generators and the `yield` statement.
## URL Changes
If you started with pytg after 2015, you can ignore this. If you cloned from `luckydonald/pytg`, you can ignore this.
Here is how to update your local git clone to this url when your old one was set to [https://github.com/efaisal/pytg.git`](https://github.com/efaisal) (before I started maintaining it in September 2014)
```shell
# navigate into the clone
cd pytg # not pytg/pytg!
# change to the new url
git remote set-url origin https://github.com/luckydonald/pytg.git
# download the changes
git pull
# don't forget to install the newest official cli: https://github.com/vysheng/tg
```
If that failes at some point, just Install it from scratch.
Thanks!