Pretender Telegram Bot

This simple bot will help you to be anyone you want.

Try it right now and feel yourself Albert Einstein, or create your own pretender.

Using

Add the bot to any group and it will echo all your messages to this group.

Installing

First, create your own pretender bot here @BotFather and copy its API token.

Next, install pip in your server (it must have python pre-installed):

$ cd /tmp
$ wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
$ sudo python get-pip.py
$ rm /tmp/get-pip.py

Then, install needed dependencies using pip:

$ sudo pip install -r https://github.com/maxgrechnev/pretender-bot/raw/master/requirements.txt

Finally, install a bot daemon from source:

$ API_TOKEN=<your API token goes here>
$ cd /tmp
$ wget https://github.com/maxgrechnev/pretender-bot/raw/master/pretender-bot.py
$ wget https://github.com/maxgrechnev/pretender-bot/raw/master/pretender-bot.service
$ sudo mkdir /etc/pretender-bot
$ sudo mkdir /usr/share/pretender-bot
$ sudo mkdir /var/log/pretender-bot
$ sudo mv /tmp/pretender-bot.py /usr/share/pretender-bot/pretender-bot.py
$ sudo mv /tmp/pretender-bot.service /etc/systemd/system/pretender-bot.service
$ sudo chmod 755 /usr/share/pretender-bot/pretender-bot.py
$ echo $API_TOKEN | sudo tee -a /etc/pretender-bot/pretender-bot.cfg
$ sudo systemctl daemon-reload
$ sudo systemctl enable pretender-bot
$ sudo systemctl start pretender-bot

Find your bot in Telegram and enjoy!