telegram-mute-scheduler

Scheduler for muting group & user notifications on Telegram.

Please note: this is a work-in-progress and therefore instructions are not final.

• Web dashboard is under construction which will be used to edit and view schedules.

Prerequisites:

• Telegram TDLib API credentials, which you can register on the telegram website: https://core.telegram.org/api/obtaining_api_id

Setup Instructions:

1) Set up files

Clone repo

git clone https://github.com/jasbanza/telegram-mute-scheduler.git

Navigate to project root and install node dependencies

cd telegram-mute-scheduler

npm install

Create config.json from template and edit, making sure to set the telegram API details accordingly:

cp /config/config-template.json /config/config.json

Set permissions on config folder so that the background service (root) can create and save the Telegram session.json:

chown root -R config

chmod 766 -R config

Optional - update path to node executable for the ExecStart property in the service file. (root's path might differ to the logged in user / nvm's path, and if it's an older version of nodejs, it might break stuff...)

which node

2) Set up background service

Copy the .service file into /etc/systemd/system/

cp telegram-mute-scheduler.service /etc/systemd/system/telegram-mute-scheduler.service

Make it executable

sudo chmod 755 /etc/systemd/system/telegram-mute-scheduler.service

Restart systemctl to register the new service

systemctl daemon-restart

Check status of mute scheduler background process:

systemctl status telegram-mute-scheduler.service

Any errors can be found in the log:

journalctl -u telegram-mute-scheduler.service

3) Expose web service

Allow port 3000 through firewall

sudo ufw allow 3000

Check if web server is accessible on port 3000