Unfortunately I don't use Telegram anymore and won't be providing updates for this, however, I'll still accept PRs.

telegram-couchpotato-bot

Bot which lets you or others add movies to CouchPotato via the messaging service Telegram.

Contact @BotFather on Telegram to create and get a bot token.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Node.js v4.2.x
• Git (optional)

Installation

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/onedr0p/telegram-couchpotato-bot

# Install dependencies
cd telegram-couchpotato-bot
npm install

# Copy acl.json.template to acl.json
cp acl.json.template acl.json

# Copy config.json.template to config.json
cp config.json.template config.json

In config.json fill in the values below:

Telegram:

• botToken your Telegram Bot token

Bot:

• password the password to access the bot
• owner your Telegram user ID. (you can fill this in later)

CouchPotato:

• hostname: hostname where CouchPotato runs (required)
• apiKey: Your API to access CouchPotato (required)
• port: port number CouchPotato is listening on (optional, default: 5050)
• urlBase: URL Base of CouchPotato (optional, default: empty)
• ssl: Set to true if you are connecting via SSL (default: false)
• username: HTTP Auth username (default: empty)
• password: HTTP Auth password (default: empty)

Important note: Restart the bot after making any changes to the config.json file.

# Start the bot
node couchpotato.js

Usage (commands)

First use

Send the bot the /auth command with the password you created in config.json

Adding a movie

Send the bot a message with the movie name

/q ernest goes to

The bot will reply with

Found 5 movies:
1) Ernest Goes to Camp - 1987 - 5.4/10 - 92m
2) Ernest Goes to Jail - 1990 - 5.3/10 - 81m
3) Ernest Goes to Africa - 1997 - 4.7/10 - 90m
4) Ernest Goes to School - 1994 - 4.5/10 - 89m
5) Ernest Goes to Splash Mountain - 1989 - 6.7/10 - 21m

Use the custom keyboard to select the movie.

The bot will then ask you for the quality

1) Any 2) Screener 3) DVD-Rip 4) BR-Rip 5) 720p 6) 1080p

Send the profile using the custom keyboard

If everything goes well, you'll see a text from the bot saying the movie was added.

Additional commands

• /clear clear all previous commands and cache

Admin commands

• /wanted search all missing/wanted movies
• /users list users
• /revoke revoke user from bot
• /unrevoke un-revoke user from bot

Docker

Alternatively you may use Docker to start the bot

docker run --name telegram-couchpotato-bot \
  -e TELEGRAM_BOTTOKEN=
  -e BOT_PASSWORD=
  -e BOT_OWNER=
  -e BOT_MAXRESULTS=
  -e COUCHPOTATO_HOST=
  -e COUCHPOTATO_APIKEY=
  -e COUCHPOTATO_PORT=
  -e COUCHPOTATO_URLBASE=
  -e COUCHPOTATO_SSL=
  -e COUCHPOTATO_USERNAME=
  -e COUCHPOTATO_PASSWORD=
  telegram-couchpotato-bot

Prebuilt Docker image for this bot can be found here, thanks @subzero79

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2015 Devin Buhl [email protected]

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.