telegramirc

Telegram as your IRC client.

Features

• Tailored for using Telegram as your personal IRC client. This is not a group <=> channel forwarding bridge like many other projects.
• Single Telegram Bot for Multiple IRC channels (with different Telegram groups)
• Always online and search your IRC history with Telegram's builtin search.
• Direct messages (/msg) and action (/me)
• SASL Login
• Password-protected IRC channels

Dependencies

• aiogram (Telegram library)
• pydle (IRC library)
• tenacity
• toml

Usage

• Ask @BotFather for a Telegram bot, save its token
• Copy telegramirc_example.toml to telegramirc.toml
• Fill in an initial value (for example, 0) as telegram.fallback_chatid and comment out [channel.*]
• Run telegramirc with your initial configuration (python telegramirc.py)
• Talk to your bot on telegram, use /chatid to get your fallback chatid
• Now for each channel you want to join, create a telegram group with you and your bot. Use /chatid inside the group for the corresponding chatid in [channel.*] sections below.

TODO

• [ ] List online users in channel
• [ ] DCC File transfer and other IRC extensions