Telegram printer bot

This is a simple bot that allows you to print on your home printer from anywhere from any device that has a telegram client. It also exposes some basic printer diagnostics and print job management. In order to print something, just upload a file without any commands. A lot of formats are supported.

Commands:

• /start - Starts interaction and print current state
• /auth <password> - Authenticates current session with a password against password stored in auth_password file
• /pending - Lists all pending print jobs
• /completed - Lists last 10 completed print jobs
• /cancel <job_id> - Cancels a pending job with a given id

Details

• Uses simple password authentication
• Uses libreoffice to convert files to PDF format before printing
• Uses lpr to send a file to your default printer
• Uses python-telegram-bot package to interface with the Telegram API

Install

• Python packages: pip3 install python-telegram-bot
• Libreoffice. Install it using your package manager, like apt install libreoffice