How to deploy:

-1. Create a telegram bot and get the token

You can do this by talking with the official "BotFather" tool on Telegram: https://t.me/botfather

0. Get the telegram IDs of the allowed users

For example, of your friends in telegram.

1. Create a VM, and SSH to it

For example, in Digital Ocean, Azure, etc.

You can also run the script locally. Useful for testing.

2. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/RomanPlusPlus/telegram-llm-bot.git

3. Create a tmux session

tmux new -s session_name

4. Install the dependencies with pip

cd to the dir where you cloned this and run in a terminal:

pip install -r requirements.txt

5. Specify the API keys and allowed users like this:

echo "export TELEGRAM_LLM_BOT_TOKEN='<your_token>'" >> ~/.bashrc

echo "export OPENAI_API_KEY='<your_token>'" >> ~/.bashrc

echo "export OPENAI_MODEL='<your_token>'" >> ~/.bashrc

echo "export ALLOWED_USER_IDS='some_id1,some_id2,some_id3'" >> ~/.bashrc

source ~/.bashrc

5. Run the main script

python3 main.py

To leave the script running even after you log out, press Ctrl+b, and then press d.

To return to the tmux session in the future, run tmux attach -t session_name.