Welcome to Telegram Bot GitHub/GitLab Notify 👋

This package provides the ability to integrate the Telegram messaging service and GitHub/GitLab. With this package, you can create a Telegram bot to receive notifications from GitHub or GitLab events and manage customization through messages and buttons on Telegram.

📝 Information

• Send GitHub/GitLab notifications of your repositories to Telegram Bots, Groups, and Channels.
• The bot must be created using the BotFather

🎉 Features

1. GitHub/GitLab Notifications to Telegram: The package allows you to configure a Telegram bot to receive notifications from various GitHub/GitLab events, including events like commits, pull requests, issues, releases, and many more.

2. Customize Notifications: You can customize the types of notifications you want to receive through options on Telegram.

3. Interactive Buttons: The package supports creating interactive buttons on Telegram to perform actions such as enabling or disabling notifications.

4. Event Management: You can manage specific events that you want to receive notifications for, allowing you to focus on what's most important for your projects.

5. Easy Integration: The package provides an API and user-friendly functions to create a Telegram bot and link it to your GitHub/GitLab account.

📋 Requirements

• PHP ^8.0
• Composer
• Telegram Bot

🔧 Installation

As for the installation and configuration, this project provides two different installation ways depending on your preference or suitable for your system.

Way 1: Install by composer directly on the system (Requires the system to install composer, previous PHP version)

Way 2: Install by Docker (Requires the system to install Docker, Docker Compose)

I. Installation and configuration 🛠

Please choose only one of the following two ways to set up the project.

Way 1: Install by composer directly on the system ⚙

First, please clone and install this project via Composer:

composer create-project lbiltech/telegram-git-notifier-app

After running the command above, you will have the project installed under the telegram-git-notifier-app directory, and the environment file .env will be created automatically.

Some the json files will be created automatically in the storage directory. These files are used to store the data and serve for features in this bot.

Create a New Bot

To create a new bot, you need to talk to BotFather and follow a few simple steps.

1. Open a chat with BotFather and send /newbot command.
2. Enter a friendly name for your bot. This name will be displayed in contact details and elsewhere.
3. Enter a unique username for your bot. It must end in bot. Like this, for example: TetrisBot or tetris_bot.
4. Copy the HTTP API access token provided by BotFather and paste it into your .env file.

TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN=123456789:ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

Get your Chat ID and add it to the .env file

1. Open a chat with your bot.
2. Send any message to your bot. (This handle needs to get your chat id)
3. Go to the following URL: https://api.telegram.org/bot<YourTelegramBotToken>/getUpdates
4. Look for the "chat":{"id": field and copy the number after it. This is your Chat ID.
5. Paste the Chat ID in your .env file.

TELEGRAM_BOT_CHAT_ID=123456789

Set up your domain and SSL certificate

We recommend that you use HTTPS to set up your domain and webhook. You can build your own server or use a service like Heroku.

In this example, we will use localhost and ngrok to set up the domain and webhook:

1. Download and install ngrok.
2. Go to this project directory and run command in terminal: php -S localhost:8000
3. Continue to run command in terminal: ngrok http 8000
4. Copy the HTTPS URL provided by ngrok and paste it into your .env file.

APP_URL=https://123456789.ngrok.io

At this time, the source launch process is done, please skip way 2 and go to step II. Set the webhook to continue.

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Way 2: Install by Docker 🐳

Note: This way requires the system to install Docker and Docker Compose.

⚠ If you set up the project by way one, please can skip this way. 🚸

And go to step II. Set the webhook to continue.

First, please clone this project and copy the environment file .env.example to .env:

git clone [email protected]:lbiltech/telegram-git-notifier-app.git
cd telegram-git-notifier-app
cp .env.example .env

Update the environment variables

Open the .env file and update the following variables:

PHP_VERSION_SELECTED=8.2
APP_PORT=3180

# You can customize the container name to suit your needs using GitHub and GitLab
CONTAINER_NAME=telegram-notify-bot

Note:

• The PHP_VERSION_SELECTED variable is the PHP version you want to use in the container.
• The APP_PORT variable is the port of the container. (Please don't set the same port as the host)
• The CONTAINER_NAME variable is the name of the container you want to create.

Install and run the container

Run the following command to install and run the container:

bash ./docker.sh

Some the json files will be created automatically in the storage directory. These files are used to store the data and serve for features in this bot.

Create a New Bot

To create a new bot, you need to talk to BotFather and follow a few simple steps.

1. Open a chat with BotFather and send /newbot command.
2. Enter a friendly name for your bot. This name will be displayed in contact details and elsewhere.
3. Enter a unique username for your bot. It must end in bot. Like this, for example: TetrisBot or tetris_bot.
4. Copy the HTTP API access token provided by BotFather and paste it into your .env file.

TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN=123456789:ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

Get your Chat ID and add it to the .env file

1. Open a chat with your bot.
2. Send any message to your bot. (This handle needs to get your chat id)
3. Go to the following URL: https://api.telegram.org/bot<YourTelegramBotToken>/getUpdates
4. Look for the "chat":{"id": field and copy the number after it. This is your Chat ID.
5. Paste the Chat ID in your .env file.

TELEGRAM_BOT_CHAT_ID=123456789

Set up your domain and SSL certificate

In this way, we use the proxy in container and ngrok to set up the domain and webhook:

1. Check the proxy of the container: docker inspect <CONTAINER_NAME>-nginx | grep IPAddress

Note: Replace <CONTAINER_NAME> with the name of the container in .env file.

Example:

2. Download and install ngrok.
3. Continue to run command in terminal: ngrok http <CONTAINER_IP>

Note: Replace <CONTAINER_IP> is the IP address of the container in step 1.

Example:

ngrok http 172.28.0.3

3. Copy the HTTPS URL provided by ngrok and paste it into your .env file.

APP_URL=https://123456789.ngrok-free.app

II. Set the webhook

We have two ways to set the webhook:

1. Set the webhook from this project

After setting up your domain and SSL certificate, you need to set up the webhook for your bot.

Go to:

<APP_URL>/webhook/set.php

Note: Replace <APP_URL> with your app URL in .env file.

If you see the following message, it means that the webhook has been sent successfully.

{"ok":true,"result":true,"description":"Webhook was set"}

2. Set the webhook manually from Telegram

If you want to set the webhook manually, you can use the following URL:

https://api.telegram.org/bot<YourTelegramBotToken>/setWebhook?url=<APP_URL>

Note: Replace <YourTelegramBotToken> with your bot token and <APP_URL> with your app URL in .env file.

III. Add chat ids you want to receive notifications to the .env file

You can add multiple chat ids to the .env file.

These chat ids will be the chat ids of your groups, channels, or users.

Also, you can add the chat id of this bot to receive incoming notifications for itself.

TELEGRAM_NOTIFY_CHAT_IDS="-978339113,-1001933979183"

Note: Please use comma to separate chat ids.

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Now your configuration is complete. And the .env file will be like this:

APP_NAME='Telegram GitHub/GitLab Notify Bot'

# Set your app URL here
APP_URL=https://123456789.ngrok.io

TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN=6162840106:AAH3g20lMQIkG_wHHu8R_ngdtG541uzoq4
TELEGRAM_BOT_CHAT_ID=6872320129

# Set your telegram group chat ids here ( please use comma to separate )
TELEGRAM_NOTIFY_CHAT_IDS="-978339113,-1001933979183"

TIMEZONE=Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh

PHP_VERSION_SELECTED=8.2
CONTAINER_NAME=telegram-notify-bot
APP_PORT=3180

🚀 Usage

Now you can send a message to your bot, and you will receive a welcome message from the bot.

/start

If you want to check the menu, you can send the following message to your bot.

/menu

🎊 At this point, the configuration process for your telegram bot is completed. You can use all the features of this bot. 🎉🎉

To increase ease of use. Let's create a menu with a list of commands listed for you.

Please send the following message to your bot to create a menu button.

/set_menu

Now you will need to add the Webhook for your GitHub and GitLab repository to receive notifications.

📌 Add webhook on your GitHub repository to receive notifications

1. Go to your repository settings.
2. Go to the Webhooks section.
3. Click on Add webhook.
4. Set Payload URL to <APP_URL>.
5. Set Content type to application/x-www-form-urlencoded.
6. Which events would you like to trigger this webhook? Select Let me select individual events..
7. Click on the Active checkbox and Add webhook button.
8. Done. You will receive a notification when your repository has a new event.

Here is the first notification you will receive:

📌 Add webhook on your GitLab repository to receive notifications

1. Go to your repository settings.
2. Go to the Webhooks section.
3. Click on Add new webhook.
4. Set URL to <APP_URL>.
5. Choose any Trigger you want.
6. Click on the Enable SSL verification checkbox and Add webhook button.

Note: You can set up this webhook for different repositories. Please similarly set up the webhook for each repository.

Then every time one of those repositories appears an event, this telegram bot will immediately send you a notification.