Markinim

This is the @MarkinimBot Telegram bot's source code. It's a bit messy (it was never meant to be open source at the beginning) so it needs a cleanup, but it works. Memory usage and performance are pretty good. It uses sqlite.

Deploy

For docker instructions, skip here

Install required dependencies:

$ nimble install

Then create a secret.ini file which looks like this, where admin is your Telegram user id, and token is the bot token obtainable from @BotFather.

[config]
token = "1234:abcdefg"
admin = 123456
logging = 1

You can also add a keeplast = 1500 parameter to the configuration, to avoid ram overloads by processing a maximum of keeplast messages per session (default: 1500)

$ nim c -o:markinim src/markinim.nim
$ ./markinim

Deploy (with docker)

• Copy .env.sample to .env
• Edit BOT_TOKEN and ADMIN_ID
• If needed, edit KEEP_LAST (default: 1500. Read above)
• Build and run the image with docker compose up -d --build
• Run the bot with docker compose up -d

Old instructions

⚠️ WARNING: deprecated. Use the docker compose instructions above instead.

• Build the image with docker build -t markinim .
• Run the bot using docker run -itd -v="${pwd}/data":/code/data:z --env-file=.env --restart=unless-stopped --name=markinimbot markinim

Backups

⚠️ WARNING: This is an experimental backup script. It's not well-tested yet. Use it at your own risk. I am not responsible for any data loss. I don't know if it works.

• Setup syncthing if you want to sync the backups to another device
• Copy tools/backup_script.example.sh to tools/backup_script.sh and edit it to set the correct values for root_dir, backup_directory and backup_filename
• Optionally, edit TELEGRAM_ID to receive a notification when the backup is done
• Copy tools/backup.example.sh to tools/backup.sh and edit it if you want to change the container name
• Run a cronjob to run tools/backup.sh every 4h (or whatever you want)
  • Open crontab with crontab -e
  • Add 0 */4 * * * /path/to/markinim/tools/backup.sh
  • Save and exit
• Done! Now you should have a backup every 4h in the specified directory