llewellynvdm / irssi2telegram

Irssi to Telegram bridge

irssi2telegram

Irssi to Telegram bridge

Installation

1. Copy telegram.pl to ~/.irssi/scripts
2. Copy telegram.cfg to ~/.irssi
3. Create a new bot as explained here: https://core.telegram.org/bots#6-botfather
4. Load the script in irssi using /load telegram.pl
5. Write a telegram message to your bot and take a look at the irssi logs. There should be an error telegram message from unknown user <user>, id <id>
6. Adapt telegram.cfg with your bot id and the userid from step 4
7. Reload the bot using /load telegram.pl
8. That's all

Usage

• The script transfers all irssi messages (except yours) that match the configured pattern to the bot
• all messages to the bot are forwarded to irssi:
  • normally to the last channel you received a message from
  • you can specify a channel with: #<channel> <message>