InstaTG
Instagram to Telegram Channel Bot. Can access posts from any public Instagram account or an account that you follow.
Features
- Keeps track of existing sent posts to tg in an embedded db.
- Fast & Concurrent (at least as much as Telegram's rate limit allows it to be).
- You can send the latest posts at periodic intervals or send all past Instagram posts.
- Tested on Linux, but should also work across platforms (Win/Mac/Linux) and architectures (ARM/x86).
Prerequisites
- Have a spare Instagram account.
- Create a telegram bot using botfather and obtain its HTTP token.
- Create a telegram channel.
- Add your bot to your channel and make it admin.
- Get your channel chat id using
https://api.telegram.org/botXXX:YYYYY/getUpdates(replace the XXX:YYYYY with your BOT HTTP API Token you just got from the Telegram BotFather)
Usage
There are two versions:
cmd/app- Fetch the latest posts from an Instagram channel and send them to a Telegram channel.cmd/historical- Fetch all historical/past posts from an Instagram channel and send them to a Telegram channel.
You should probably run cmd/app as a background service while cmd/historical is a one-off.
Note: You need Go to compile it or maybe you can grab pre-compiled builds from somewhere.
Note: The directory where you place the binaries must be user writeable.
Compile using go build -o ./bin/instatg ./cmd/app
From CLI
$ ./instatg \
-tgtoken "XXXXX:YYYYY" \
-tgchannel "-123456789" \
-iguser "yourusername" \
-igpass "yourpassword" \
-igchan "exampleaccount"
Usage of instatg:
-dbpath string
Database File Path (optional) (default "./store.boltdb")
-igchan string
Instagram Channel's Username
-igpass string
Your Instagram Password
-iguser string
Your Instagram Username
-rerun int
Interval (in minutes) after which the bot should check IG for more posts (default 15)
-tgchannel int
Telegram Channel ID
-tgtoken string
Telegram Bot Token
As SystemD Service
Add service in ~/.config/systemd/user/instatg.service
[Unit]
Description=InstaTg Bot for Channel X
[Service]
Restart=always
WorkingDirectory=/home/icewreck/somefolder
ExecStart=/home/icewreck/somefolder/instatgapp \
-tgtoken "XXXXX:YYYYY" \
-tgchannel "-123456789" \
-iguser "yourusername" \
-igpass "yourpassword" \
-igchan "exampleaccount"
[Install]
WantedBy=default.target
And then enable it.
systemctl --user daemon-reload
systemctl --user start instatg.service
systemctl --user enable instatg.service
# check status
systemctl --user status instatg.service
