django-telegram-objects

About

A Django App that creates Telegram objects of a bot in a Postgres Database. The bot has to have permission to read the messages of the Chat objects where is the member of.

Requirements

Python 3.7 to 3.11 supported.

Django 3.2 to 4.1 supported.

Setup

Install from pip:

python -m pip install django-telegram-objects

Add it to your installed apps:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...,
    "telegram_objects",
    ...,
]

Make sure you are using a Postgres database and migrate the tables:

python manage.py migrate

Set up

In you project settings:

Add your bot token: TELEGRAM_BOT_API_KEY

Recommendation: save your bot token a .env file

TELEGRAM_BOT_API_KEY=<your-token>

Load your secrets keys and tokens using, for example, [python-dotenv](https://pypi.org/project/python-dotenv/) and access to the key using os.environ.get method:

TELEGRAM_BOT_API_KEY = os.environ.get("TELEGRAM_BOT_API_KEY")

Add models you would like to see in your Django admin:

Example:

TELEGRAM_MODELS_IN_ADMIN_SITE = (
    "Chat",
    "Message",
    "Document",
)

How to use

Once the app is set up, you can get updates by running the command:

python manage.py get_updates