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# discord-telegram-bridge

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A small and fast telegram to discord chat bridge, written in node

#### Setup

> If you want to run it on heroku, you can just click the button below.

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- Execute `npm install -g discord-telegram-bridge --production`
- Create a Discord webhook. You can do this by going to Server settings -> Webhooks. Copy the URL, you'll need it later.
- Set env variables:

| Env variable                     | type   | value                                                                                                                                                                                         |
| -------------------------------- | ------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN`             | string | You can get this by speaking with @BotFather on telegram and creating a new bot.                                                                                                              |
| `DISCORD_TOKEN`                  | string | The bot token for your Discord application. Create a new app at the Discord Developer Portal , go to the bot section, click on Create a bot and copy the bot token it gives to you.           |
| `TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID`               | string | The ChatId of the telegram group you want to bridge.                                                                                                                                          |
| `DISCORD_CHANNEL_ID`             | string | The Discord ChannelId of the channel you want to bridge.                                                                                                                                      |
| `webhook_id` and `webhook_token` | string | Those are part of the webhook URL you copied. webhook_id is a 18 characters long int, webhook_token is a ~70 chars long randomly generated string. Those are seperated by slashes in the url. |

- Run `discord-telegram-bridge` and you're set!

#### Contributing

> Wondering what to contribute? The project has a codacy page at [https://app.codacy.com/manual/daaniiieel/discord-telegram-bridge/dashboard](https://app.codacy.com/manual/daaniiieel/discord-telegram-bridge/dashboard). On the issues tab, you can see all the code quality (mostly code style) issues we have.

- Fork this github repo
- Clone your fork to your machine
- Execute `npm install` **without** the `--production` flag
- Write code
- Once done, `git add *` then `git cz`. This uses Commitizen (installed automatically as a devDependency with `npm install`) to write beautiful commit messages
- Make a pull request from your fork to this repo
- After reviewing it, your code will be merged