Warning
This is a POC to experiment with Rust and async programing, nothing fancy to see in this Repo!
This CLI streams messages from a Telegram channel directly to your stdout/terminal, displaying all incoming messages in real time.
While this feature alone may seem limited, it serves as a foundation for building more interesting and advanced use cases on top of it (For instance, I'm integrating it with a Binance API to automatically execute buy/sell orders based on incoming messages).
- Get your Telegram API and Hash — which can be obtained at https://my.telegram.org.
Other than the crate declared at Cargo.toml, this crate needs tdjson 1.7.0 dylib in your path
for building and running your application.
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Install the dependencies:
brew install gperf cmake openssl -
Add the libtdjson dynamic library to path (warning: it must be 1.7.0). You can compile it following the Tdlib build instructions
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PWD/lib/
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=lib cargo build --release
- Build with Docker
docker build -t telegram_tracker:0.1.6 .
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=lib ./target/release/telegram_tracker \
--phone <phone> \
--telegram-api-id <telegram-api-id>
--telegram-api-hash <telegram-api-hash>
--follow-channel-id 1312345502