description
chatter is a proof of concept osint monitoring telegram bot for windows (server, ideally) that monitors tweet content, reddit submission titles and 4chan post content for specific keywords - as well as phrases in quotation marks. it feeds content that is discovered to your telegram group in near real-time depending on your configuration. this is an early beta release with limited features.

ping kevin@envadr.io if you think a custom version of chatter or sophisticated pen testing could be of use to your organization.

video (click to watch)

telegram bot reporting

how to run chatter
download and unzip https://github.com/visualbasic6/chatter/archive/master.zip.

1. create your own bot for chatter on telegram with "botfather"
   
2. set the api key in \config\apikey.txt
   
3. add your bot to your group and give it admin privileges
   
4. pull your group's chat id with this api request https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#getupdates
   
5. set the chat id in \config\chatid.txt
   
6. run the .exe
   

you may need to run cmd.exe as admin and "regsvr32 {file.ocx}" if any launch errors unrelated to absent config files appear.

the files in \config\ are self-explanatory and come with examples.

the format of targets.txt is service:area:apicreds(unnecessary):minutesbetweencrawl e.g. reddit:cryptocurrency:n/a:5

populate these files prior to running the .exe or chatter will fail. it is best to use chatter with a windows server to set it and forget it. chatter was written in classic vb with an ssl wrapper making external api requests. this is rare in 2020. because of this av may display false positives. you are free to compile from source or run chatter in an enclave - which should be standard practice for any software containing code you are unable to personally review and compile. it is recommended to abstain from broadcasting to telegram several times while populating the db with content to ignore. this is particularly useful for twitter. eventually only recent material is intercepted - though it may take a awhile for old content associated with your keywords and phrases to be databased and ignored.

compile from source
vb6

roadmap, misc. notes

1. monitoring more public facing areas (google, google news, fb, youtube, etc.)
2. monitoring topic-centric private areas (telegram, discord, slack, fb groups, etc.)
3. automated this with conversational ai (yeah probably won't do this)
4. web front
5. admin cmds in telegram groups e.g. twitter black/whitelisting to reduce noise

greetz
justinakapaste.com and all of my elderly aol hackers