vivekyadav788 / tele_bot

ChatGPT Telegram Bot

A Telegram bot that integrates with OpenAI's official ChatGPT APIs to provide answers. Ready to use with minimal configuration required.

Screenshots

Features

• Support markdown in answers
• Reset conversation with the /reset command
• Typing indicator while generating a response
• Access can be restricted by specifying a list of allowed users
• Docker and Proxy support
• (NEW!) Image generation using DALL·E via the /image command
• (NEW!) Transcribe audio and video messages using Whisper (may require ffmpeg)
• (NEW!) Automatic conversation summary to avoid excessive token usage (fixes #34)
• (NEW!) Group chat support with inline queries
  • To use this feature, enable inline queries for your bot in BotFather via the /setinline command
• (NEW!) Track token usage per user - by @AlexHTW
• (NEW!) Get personal token usage statistics and cost per day/month via the /stats command - by @AlexHTW
• (NEW!) User budgets and guest budgets - by @AlexHTW
• (NEW!) Stream support
• (NEW!) GPT-4 support
  • If you have access to the GPT-4 API, simply change the OPENAI_MODEL parameter to gpt-4

Additional features - help needed!

• Add session persistence (#70, #71)

PRs are always welcome!

Prerequisites

• Python 3.9+
• A Telegram bot and its token (see tutorial)
• An OpenAI account (see configuration section)

Getting started

Configuration

Customize the configuration by copying .env.example and renaming it to .env, then editing the required parameters as desired:

Parameter	Description
OPENAI_API_KEY	Your OpenAI API key, you can get it from here
TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN	Your Telegram bot's token, obtained using BotFather (see tutorial)
ADMIN_USER_IDS	Telegram user IDs of admins. These users have access to special admin commands, information and no budget restrictions. Admin IDs don't have to be added to ALLOWED_TELEGRAM_USER_IDS. Note: by default, no admin ('-')
ALLOWED_TELEGRAM_USER_IDS	A comma-separated list of Telegram user IDs that are allowed to interact with the bot (use getidsbot to find your user ID). Note: by default, everyone is allowed (*)

Optional configuration

Parameter	Description	Default value
MONTHLY_USER_BUDGETS	A comma-separated list of $-amounts per user from list ALLOWED_TELEGRAM_USER_IDS to set custom usage limit of OpenAI API costs for each. Note: by default, no limits for anyone (*)	*
MONTHLY_GUEST_BUDGET	$-amount as usage limit for all guest users. Guest users are users in group chats that are not in the ALLOWED_TELEGRAM_USER_IDS list. Value is ignored if no usage limits are set in user budgets (MONTHLY_USER_BUDGETS="*")	100.0
PROXY	Proxy to be used for OpenAI and Telegram bot (e.g. http://localhost:8080)	-
OPENAI_MODEL	The OpenAI model to use for generating responses	gpt-3.5-turbo
ASSISTANT_PROMPT	A system message that sets the tone and controls the behavior of the assistant	You are a helpful assistant.
SHOW_USAGE	Whether to show OpenAI token usage information after each response	false
STREAM	Whether to stream responses. Note: incompatible, if enabled, with N_CHOICES higher than 1	true
MAX_TOKENS	Upper bound on how many tokens the ChatGPT API will return	1200
MAX_HISTORY_SIZE	Max number of messages to keep in memory, after which the conversation will be summarised to avoid excessive token usage	15
MAX_CONVERSATION_AGE_MINUTES	Maximum number of minutes a conversation should live since the last message, after which the conversation will be reset	180
VOICE_REPLY_WITH_TRANSCRIPT_ONLY	Whether to answer to voice messages with the transcript only or with a ChatGPT response of the transcript	true
N_CHOICES	Number of answers to generate for each input message. Note: setting this to a number higher than 1 will not work properly if STREAM is enabled	1
TEMPERATURE	Number between 0 and 2. Higher values will make the output more random	1.0
PRESENCE_PENALTY	Number between -2.0 and 2.0. Positive values penalize new tokens based on whether they appear in the text so far	0
FREQUENCY_PENALTY	Number between -2.0 and 2.0. Positive values penalize new tokens based on their existing frequency in the text so far	0
IMAGE_SIZE	The DALL·E generated image size. Allowed values: "256x256", "512x512" or "1024x1024"	"512x512"
GROUP_TRIGGER_KEYWORD	If set, the bot in group chats will only respond to messages that start with this keyword	""
IGNORE_GROUP_TRANSCRIPTIONS	If set to true, the bot will not process transcriptions in group chats	true
TOKEN_PRICE	$-price per 1000 tokens used to compute cost information in usage statistics (https://openai.com/pricing)	0.002
IMAGE_PRICES	A comma-separated list with 3 elements of prices for the different image sizes: "256x256", "512x512" and "1024x1024"	"0.016,0.018,0.02"
TRANSCRIPTION_PRICE	USD-price for one minute of audio transcription	0.002

Check out the official API reference for more details.

Installing

Clone the repository and navigate to the project directory:

git clone https://github.com/n3d1117/chatgpt-telegram-bot.git
cd chatgpt-telegram-bot

From Source

1. Create a virtual environment:

python -m venv venv

2. Activate the virtual environment:

# For Linux or macOS:
source venv/bin/activate

# For Windows:
venv\Scripts\activate

3. Install the dependencies using requirements.txt file:

pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Use the following command to start the bot:

python bot/main.py

Using Docker Compose

Run the following command to build and run the Docker image:

docker compose up

Ready-to-use Docker images

You can also use the Docker image from Docker Hub:

docker pull n3d1117/chatgpt-telegram-bot:latest

or using the GitHub Container Registry:

docker pull ghcr.io/n3d1117/chatgpt-telegram-bot:latest

Credits

• ChatGPT from OpenAI
• python-telegram-bot
• jiaaro/pydub

Disclaimer

This is a personal project and is not affiliated with OpenAI in any way.

License

This project is released under the terms of the GPL 2.0 license. For more information, see the LICENSE file included in the repository.