Telegram ChatGPT Bot

Henry -

1. Background

We all love OpenAI, but... But sometimes it's laggy, with daily limits, and is only accessible through an archaic web interface. This open source program is ChatGPT re-created with GPT-3.5 LLM as Telegram Bot.

2. Deployment

  • Get OpenAI api key
    Go to OpenAI account - User - API keys - Create new secret key
    Note: Do keep the key well, for it only appears once. If you lose the key and want to make further configuration, you will have to re-generate a new key.

  • Get Telegram bot token
    Go to Telegram, find user @BotFather.
    Use command /start, click /newbot, follow instructions to finish setups.
    Click API token, save the token

  • Get chatgpt_telegram_bot repo

git clone https://github.com/karfly/chatgpt_telegram_bot.git
cd chatgpt_telegram_bot
nano config/config.example.yml

Fill in the info you got (you can delete the price section if you want) keep the quotation marks

telegram_token: "<your_telegram_token>"
openai_api_key: "<your_openai_api_key>"
use_chatgpt_api: true
allowed_telegram_usernames: []  # if empty, the bot is available to anyone. pass a username string to allow it and/or user ids as integers
new_dialog_timeout: 600  # new dialog starts after timeout (in seconds)
enable_message_streaming: true  # if set, messages will be shown to user word-by-word

# prices
chatgpt_price_per_1000_tokens: 0.002
gpt_price_per_1000_tokens: 0.02
whisper_price_per_1_min: 0.006
  • Make .env and .yml files effective
mv config/config.example.yml config/config.yml
mv config/config.example.env config/config.env
  • Build Docker image
docker-compose --env-file config/config.env up --build
  • Bring up container in the background
(if it’s up) docker-compose down
docker-compose up -d
systemctl enable docker
  • The repo is under frequent update. Feel free to rebuild image if you need the latest feature

3. Bot commands

  • /retry – Regenerate last bot answer
  • /new – Start new dialog
  • /mode – Select chat mode
  • /balance – Show balance
  • /help – Show help
    You can edit/add all kinds of features before building the docker image.

Enjoy!

Important: DO NOT abuse ChatGPT with crawler, public shared account, or intensive requests.


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