Receive GitHub webhook events and send to Telegram chats with AIOHTTP through Telegram Bot API

GitHub Webhook to Telegram

Receive GitHub webhook events and send to Telegram chats with AIOHTTP through Telegram Bot API

What this project do is very simple, it does not use any Telegram Bot API framework/library nor receive updates from Telegram, but calling sendMessage method of Telegram Bot API directly by sending GET requests through AIOHTTP. It should be able to be used along with any existing Telegram bot without conflicts.

1. Receive GitHub webhooks (POST request)
2. Verify the SHA256 signature
3. Format and send the text to a Telegram chat through "sendMessage" method of Telegram Bot API (GET request)

Heroku

Setup

You need a Telegram bot token, create a Telegram bot with BotFather if you don't have one yet.

Configuration

1. Go to your GitHub project Settings - Webhooks - Add webhook, fill "Payload URL", "Content Type" (must be application/json) and "Secret". You can also do this after start running the project.
2. Copy config_sample.json to config.json to configure it. chat_id can be user id or group/channel id/username, make sure the bot is /started or member of the chat with permission to send messages
3. Configure reverse proxy for this app, corresponding configuration for Nginx looks like this

   location /github {
       rewrite ^/github(.*) /$1 break;
       proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:12345;
   }
   

Run

virtualenv venv
venv/bin/pip install -U -r requirements.txt
venv/bin/python main.py

LICENSE

AGPL-3.0-or-later

    github-webhook-to-telegram, receive GitHub webhooks and send to Telegram
    Copyright (C) 2021  Dash Eclipse

    This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
    (at your option) any later version.

    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
    GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
    along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.