Django Telethon config
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This project is to help you use Telethon.
Django-Telethon is an asyncio Python 3 MTProto library to interact with Telegram's API as a user or through a bot account (bot API alternative).
What is this?
Telegram is a popular messaging application. This library is meant to make it easy for you to write Python programs that can interact with Telegram. Think of it as a wrapper that has already done the heavy job for you, so you can focus on developing an application.
Django-Telethon is a session storage implementation backend for Django ORM to use telethon in Django projects.
Compatibility
- Python 3.7+
- Django 3.0+
Installation
- Use the following command to install using pip:
pip install django-telethon
OR
- You can use the following command to set it up locally so that you can fix bugs or whatever and send pull requests:
```shell script pip install -e ".[dev]" pre-commit install
For better understanding, please read the:
* [Telethon](https://docs.telethon.dev/en/stable/index.html) documentation.
* [Telethon Session](https://docs.telethon.dev/en/stable/modules/sessions.html) documentation.
* [pre-commit](https://pre-commit.com/docs/installation/) documentation.
* [pip](https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installing/) documentation.
* [python package](https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/tutorials/packaging-projects/) documentation.
* [github pull requests](https://help.github.com/en/articles/about-pull-requests/) documentation.
### settings.py
``` python
INSTALLED_APPS = [
# ....
'django_telethon',
# ...
]
urls.py
from django.contrib import admin
from django.urls import path
from django_telethon.urls import django_telethon_urls
admin.autodiscover()
urlpatterns = [
path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
path('telegram/', django_telethon_urls()),
]
Migration
```shell script python manage.py migrate
## Signing In
Before working with Telegram’s API, you need to get your own API ID and hash:
- [Login to your Telegram account](https://my.telegram.org/auth) with the phone number of the developer account to use.
- Click under API Development tools.
- Create new application window will appear. Fill in your application details. There is no need to enter any URL, and only the first two fields (App title and Short name) can currently be changed later.
- Click on Create application at the end. Remember that your API hash is secret and Telegram won’t let you revoke it. Don’t post it anywhere!
***This API ID and hash is the one used by your application, not your phone number. You can use this API ID and hash with any phone number or even for bot accounts.***
Read more (proxy, bot and etc) [Here](https://docs.telethon.dev/en/stable/basic/signing-in.html).
## Usage
### Interactive mode
1. Open a terminal and run the following command:
```shell script
python manage.py shell
```
1. Enable ```DJANGO_ALLOW_ASYNC_UNSAFE``` in your environment.
```python
import os
os.environ["DJANGO_ALLOW_ASYNC_UNSAFE"] = "true"
```
1. You can import these from ```django_telethon.sessions```. For example, using the ```DjangoSession``` is done as follows:
```python
from telethon.sync import TelegramClient
from django_telethon.sessions import DjangoSession
from django_telethon.models import App, ClientSession
from telethon.errors import SessionPasswordNeededError
# Use your own values from my.telegram.org
API_ID = 12345
API_HASH = '0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef'
app, is_created = App.objects.update_or_create(
api_id=API_ID,
api_hash=API_HASH
)
cs, cs_is_created = ClientSession.objects.update_or_create(
name='default',
)
telegram_client = TelegramClient(DjangoSession(client_session=cs), app.api_id, app.api_hash)
telegram_client.connect()
if not telegram_client.is_user_authorized():
phone = input('Enter your phone number: ')
telegram_client.send_code_request(phone)
code = input('Enter the code you received: ')
try:
telegram_client.sign_in(phone, code)
except SessionPasswordNeededError:
password = input('Enter your password: ')
telegram_client.sign_in(password=password)
```
#### Doing stuffs
```python
print((await telegram_client.get_me()).stringify())
await telegram_client.send_message('username', 'Hello! Talking to you from Telethon')
await telegram_client.send_file('username', '/home/myself/Pictures/holidays.jpg')
await telegram_client.download_profile_photo('me')
messages = await telegram_client.get_messages('username')
await messages[0].download_media()
@telegram_client.on(telegram_client.NewMessage(pattern='(?i)hi|hello'))
async def handler(event):
await event.respond('Hey!')
API
User Login
-
Run the following command to start the server:
shell script python manage.py runserver
-
Run the following command to start telegram client:
shell script python manage.py runtelegram
-
go to admin panel and telegram app section. create a new app. get data from the your Telegram account.
-
Request code from telegram:
```python import requests import json
url = "http://127.0.0.1:8000/telegram/send-code-request/"
payload = json.dumps({ "phone_number": "+12345678901", "client_session_name": "name of the client session" }) headers = { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' }
response = requests.request("POST", url, headers=headers, data=payload)
print(response.text) ```
- Send this request for sign in:
```python import requests import json
url = "http://127.0.0.1:8000/telegram/login-user-request/"
payload = json.dumps({ "phone_number": "+12345678901", "client_session_name": "name of the client session", "code": "1234", "password": "1234" }) headers = { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' }
response = requests.request("POST", url, headers=headers, data=payload)
print(response.text)
```
Bot login
Send this request for sign in:
```python import requests import json
url = "http://127.0.0.1:8000/telegram/login-bot-request/"
payload = json.dumps({ "bot_token": "bot token", "client_session_name": "name of the client session", }) headers = { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' }
response = requests.request("POST", url, headers=headers, data=payload)
print(response.text)
```
Server-side
If you are using supervisord or another process manager, you can use the following command to start the server:
```shell script python manage.py runtelegram
#### Supervisord
1. Add the following lines to your ```/etc/supervisord.d/[yourproject].ini``` file:
```ini
[program:telegram_worker]
directory=/home/projectuser/[your_project_directory]/
command=/home/projectuser/venv/bin/python manage.py runtelegram
autostart=true
autorestart=true
stderr_logfile=/home/projectuser/logs/telegramworker.err.log
stdout_logfile=/home/projectuser/logs/telegramworker.out.log
```
1. Reload the supervisor daemon:
```shell
supervisorctl reread
supervisorctl update
supervisorctl start telegram_worker
supervisorctl status
```
## Listen to events
After login telegram client the signal `telegram_client_registered` is emitted.
1. You can listen to this signal by using the following code for example put this code to your ```receivers.py``` file in app directory:
```python
from functools import partial
from django.dispatch import receiver
from telethon import events
from django_telethon.signals import telegram_client_registered
async def event_handler(event, client_session):
print(client_session.name, event.raw_text, sep=' | ')
# if you need access to telegram client, you can use event.client
# telegram_client = event.client
await event.respond('!pong')
@receiver(telegram_client_registered)
def receiver_telegram_registered(telegram_client, client_session, *args, **kwargs):
handler = partial(event_handler, client_session=client_session)
telegram_client.add_event_handler(
handler,
events.NewMessage(incoming=True, pattern='ping'),
)
```
1. In the `apps.py` file, add the following code:
```python
from django.apps import AppConfig
class MyAppConfig(AppConfig):
...
def ready(self):
from .receivers import receiver_telegram_registered # noqa: F401
```
1. Read more about signals in [Django signals](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.0/topics/signals/)
1. Read more about events in [Telethon events](https://docs.telethon.dev/en/stable/modules/events.html)
## Django Configuration[Optional]
To configure the Django Telethon library, you need to update your Django settings. Add the following dictionary to your Django settings:
```python
DJANGO_TELETHON = {
'RABBITMQ_ACTIVE': True or False, # Set to True if you want to use RabbitMQ. Otherwise, set to False.
'RABBITMQ_URL': 'your_rabbitmq_url', # The URL to your RabbitMQ server.
'QUEUE_CHANNEL_NAME': 'your_channel_name', # Name of the channel you want to use for the queue.
'QUEUE_CALLBACK': 'path_to_custom_callback' # (Optional) Path to your custom callback. Default is 'django_telethon.callback.on_message'.
}
Example
DJANGO_TELETHON = {
'RABBITMQ_ACTIVE': True,
'RABBITMQ_URL': 'amqp://app:app@localhost:5672/app',
'QUEUE_CHANNEL_NAME': 'EXAMPLE_CHANNEL', # Name of the channel you want to use for the queue.
'QUEUE_CALLBACK': 'django_telethon.callback.on_message' # (Optional) Path to your custom callback. Default is 'django_telethon.callback.on_message'.
}
Default Callback
By default, the library uses a callback on_message
which logs the received message. If you want to use a custom callback, set the QUEUE_CALLBACK
in your settings.
Usage
When a new message arrives at the RabbitMQ channel specified, the configured callback function will be invoked. The default callback logs the message using the Python logging module. You can replace this with your own callback function to process the message as desired.
Using RabbitMQ for Inter-thread Communication
In the scenario where different parts of your application (like web servers managed by Gunicorn, background workers managed by Celery, etc.) are running on different threads or even different machines, communicating directly might be a challenge. If, for instance, you receive a message directly from Telegram and want to respond or if some event happens on the web front and you wish to notify a Telegram user, it's not straightforward due to these separate threads.
To solve this, Django Telethon library has introduced a mechanism to send messages across threads/machines using RabbitMQ. Here's how you can utilize it:
Connect to RabbitMQ
The library initializes a connection to RabbitMQ and listens for incoming messages. Once a message arrives, the specified callback function is invoked
Sending Messages to Telegram Thread
For components that want to communicate with the Telegram thread, you can use the send_to_telegra_thread
function. This function sends a message to the Telegram thread via RabbitMQ.
from django_telethon import send_to_telegra_thread
# Send a payload/message to the Telegram thread
send_to_telegra_thread(some_key="some_value", another_key="another_value")
The send_to_telegra_thread
function serializes the payload and sends it to RabbitMQ. The Telegram thread, which is already listening to RabbitMQ, receives this message and can then process it, for example, to send a response back to a Telegram user.
Callbacks
Default on_message
Callback
Here's the default callback provided by the library:
import logging
async def on_message(byte_string: bytes):
logging.debug("Received message:", byte_string)
Custom Callback
To use a custom callback:
- Define your custom callback function. Ensure it's an
async
function and has a single parameter of typeaio_pika.IncomingMessage
. - Set the
QUEUE_CALLBACK
inDJANGO_TELETHON
settings to point to your custom callback function's path.
License
The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.