Deploying on Heroku

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What is this repo about?

This is a telegram bot writen in python for searching files in Drive.

How to deploy?

• Clone this repo:

git clone https://github.com/svr666/search-bot search-bot/
cd search-bot

Install requirements

• For Debian based distros

sudo apt install python3
sudo snap install docker 

• For Arch and it's derivatives:

sudo pacman -S docker python

Setting up config file

cp config_sample.env config.env

• Remove the first line saying:

_____REMOVE_THIS_LINE_____=True

Fill up rest of the fields. Meaning of each fields are discussed below:

• BOT_TOKEN : The telegram bot token that you get from @BotFather
• OWNER_ID : The Telegram user ID (not username) of the owner of the bot
• TELEGRAPH_TOKEN : The token generated by running:

python3 telegraph_token.py

Setting up drive_folder file

• The bot is unable to search in sub-directories, but you can specify directories in which you wanna search.

• Add drive/folder name(anything that u likes), drive id/folder id & index url(optional) corresponding to each id.

• If you are adding a folder id and you wish to use index url, then add index url corresponding to that folder.

• Run driveid.py and follow the screen.

python3 driveid.py

Getting Google OAuth API credential file

• Visit the Google Cloud Console
• Go to the OAuth Consent tab, fill it, and save.
• Go to the Credentials tab and click Create Credentials -> OAuth Client ID
• Choose Desktop and Create.
• Use the download button to download your credentials.
• Move that file to the root of search-bot, and rename it to credentials.json
• Visit Google API page
• Search for Drive and enable it if it is disabled
• Finally, run the script to generate token file (token.pickle) for Google Drive:

pip install google-api-python-client google-auth-httplib2 google-auth-oauthlib
python3 generate_drive_token.py

Menual - Install Heroku cli

• Login into your heroku account with command:

heroku login

• Create a new heroku app:

heroku create appname	

• Select This App in your Heroku-cli:

heroku git:remote -a appname

• Change Dyno Stack to a Docker Container:

heroku stack:set container

• Add Private Credentials and Config Stuff:

git add -f credentials.json token.pickle config.env heroku.yml

• Commit new changes:

git commit -m "Added Creds."

• Push Code to Heroku:

git push heroku master --force

• Restart Worker by these commands:

heroku ps:scale worker=0

heroku ps:scale worker=1	 	

Heroku-Note: Doing authorizations ( /authorize command ) through telegram wont be permanent as heroku uses ephemeral filesystem. They will be reset on each dyno boot. As a workaround you can:

• Make a file authorized_chats.txt and write the user names and chat_id of you want to authorize, each separated by new line
• Then force add authorized_chats.txt to git and push it to heroku

git add authorized_chats.txt -f
git commit -asm "Added hardcoded authorized_chats.txt"
git push heroku heroku:master

Deploying on Server

• Start docker daemon (skip if already running):

sudo dockerd

• Build Docker image:

sudo docker build . -t search-bot

• Run the image:

sudo docker run search-bot

Credits :

• python-aria-mirror-bot - lzzy12