Media Search bot

  • Index channel or group files for inline search.
  • When you post file on telegram channel or group this bot will save that file in database, so you can search easily in inline mode.
  • Supports document, video and audio file formats with caption support.

Installation

Watch this video to create bot – https://youtu.be/dsuTn4qV2GA

Easy Way

Deploy

Hard Way

# Create virtual environment
python3 -m venv env

# Activate virtual environment
env\Scripts\activate.bat # For Windows
source env/bin/activate # For Linux or MacOS

# Install Packages
pip3 install -r requirements.txt

# Edit info.py with variables as given below then run bot
python3 bot.py

Check sample_info.py before editing info.py file

Variables

Required Variables

  • BOT_TOKEN: Create a bot using @BotFather, and get the Telegram API token.
  • API_ID: Get this value from telegram.org
  • API_HASH: Get this value from telegram.org
  • CHANNELS: Username or ID of channel or group. Separate multiple IDs by space
  • ADMINS: Username or ID of Admin. Separate multiple Admins by space
  • DATABASE_URI: mongoDB URI. Get this value from mongoDB. For more help watch this video
  • DATABASE_NAME: Name of the database in mongoDB. For more help watch this video

Optional Variables

  • COLLECTION_NAME: Name of the collections. Defaults to Telegram_files. If you going to use same database, then use different collection name for each bot
  • MAX_RESULTS: Maximum limit for inline search results
  • CACHE_TIME: The maximum amount of time in seconds that the result of the inline query may be cached on the server
  • USE_CAPTION_FILTER: Whether bot should use captions to improve search results. (True/False)
  • AUTH_USERS: Username or ID of users to give access of inline search. Separate multiple users by space. Leave it empty if you don’t want to restrict bot usage.
  • AUTH_CHANNEL: Username or ID of channel. Without subscribing this channel users cannot use bot.
  • INVITE_MSG: Auth channel invitation message.

Admin commands

channel - Get basic infomation about channels
total - Show total of saved files
delete - Delete file from database
logger - Get log file

Tips

  • Run one_time_indexer.py file to save old files in the database that are not indexed yet.
  • You can use | to separate query and file type while searching for specific type of file. For example: Avengers | video
  • If you don’t want to create a channel or group, use your chat ID / username as the channel ID. When you send a file to a bot, it will be saved in the database.

Contributions

Contributions are welcome.

Thanks to Pyrogram

Support

Update Channel and Support Group

License

Code released under The GNU General Public License.

GitHub

View Github