Python Web App which Indexes a Your Telegram Channel and Serves its Files for Download and Stream.

Features 📑

• Multi Channel Index 📡
• Thumbnail Support (Channel Profile) 🖼️
• Search Support 🔍
• Login support 🔐
• Faster Resumeable Download Link ⏩
• Stream Video Support 📺
• 25 Website Themes (Bootswatch) 🎨
• Playlist Creator Support 📀
• Database Support 💾
• Cache System 🔄

To-Do 📦

• API Support 🛠️
• Admin Pannel Support 👑

Website Screenshots 🌐

Environment Variables 🪧

To run this Surf-TG, you will need to add the following environment variables to your config.env file.

Note

First, rename the sample_config.env to config.env.

Variable Name	Value
API_ID (required)	Telegram api_id obtained from https://my.telegram.org/apps. int
API_HASH (required)	Telegram api_hash obtained from https://my.telegram.org/apps. str
BOT_TOKEN (required)	The Telegram Bot Token that you got from @BotFather str
AUTH_CHANNEL (required)	Chat_ID of the Channel you are using for index (Seperate Multiple Channel By , eg- -100726731829, -10022121832). int
DATABASE_URL (required)	Your Mongo Database URL (Connection string). Follow this Guide to generate database. str
SESSION_STRING	Use same account which is a participant of the AUTH_CHANNEL Use this Tool to generate Session String. str
BASE_URL (required)	Valid BASE URL where the bot is deployed. Format of URL should be http://myip, where myip is the IP/Domain(public) of your bot. For Heroku use App Url. str
PORT	Port on which app should listen to, defaults to 8080. int
USERNAME	default username is admin. str
PASSWORD	default password is admin. str
ADMIN_USERNAME	Set the admin username so that the admin can log in to Playlist Creator. Make it different from USERNAME. The default admin username is surfTG. str
ADMIN_PASSWORD	Set the admin password so that the admin can log in to Playlist Creator. Make it different from PASSWORD. The default admin password is surfTG. str
SLEEP_THRESHOLD	Set a sleep threshold for flood wait exceptions, defaut is 60. int
WORKERS	Number of maximum concurrent workers for handling incoming updates, default is 10. int
MULTI_TOKEN*	Multi bot token for handing incoming updates. (*)asterisk represents any interger starting from 1. str
THEME	Choose any Bootswatch theme for UI, Default is flatly. str
MULTI_CLIENT	Set this True if using MULTI_TOKEN, Default is False. bool
HIDE_CHANNEL	Set this True to hide the Channel Card in Public Web, Default is False. bool

Themes 🎨

• There are 25 Themes from bootswatch official Bootstrap Themes.
• You can check Theme from bootswatch.com before selecting.
• To Change theme, Set Appropriate Theme name in Theme Variable.

Themes
cerulean	cosmo	cyborg	darkly	flatly	journal
litera	lumen	lux	materia	minty	pulse
sandstone	simplex	sketchy	slate	solar	spacelab
superhero	united	yeti	vapor	morph	quartz
zephyr

Multiple Bots 🚀 (Speed Booster)

Note

What it multi-client feature and what it does?

This feature shares the Telegram API requests between worker bots to speed up download speed when many users are using the server and to avoid the flood limits that are set by Telegram.

Note

You can add up to 50 bots since 50 is the max amount of bot admins you can set in a Telegram Channel.

To enable multi-client, generate new bot tokens and add it as your config.env with the following key names.

MULTI_TOKEN1: Add your first bot token here. MULTI_TOKEN2: Add your second bot token here.

you may also add as many as bots you want. (max limit is 50) MULTI_TOKEN3, MULTI_TOKEN4, etc.

Warning

Don't forget to add all these worker bots to the AUTH_CHANNEL for the proper functioning

Generate Database 💾

Note

Why Database is Required

In Playlist Creator, the folder and file data are stored. As of now, the session string is not required in Surf-TG, so to store these files, the database is necessary.

1. Go to https://mongodb.com/ and sign-up.
2. Create Shared Cluster.
3. Press on Database under Deployment Header, your created cluster will be there.
4. Press on connect, choose Allow Access From Anywhere and press on Add IP Address without editing the ip, then create user.
5. After creating user press on Choose a connection, then press on Connect your application. Choose Driver python and version 3.6 or later.
6. Copy your connection string and replace <password> with the password of your user, then press close.

Generate Session String

Note

Make Sure that you have to Generate the Pyrofork Session String

To generate the Session String use this Colab Tool

Playlist Creator 📀

Note

Login With ADMIN_USERNAME and ADMIN_PASSWORD

• 📁 Create Folder/Subfolder
• ✏️ Edit the Folder Name
• 🖼️ Edit the Folder Thumbnail
• 📥 Directly Store File in folder from AUTH_CHANNEL
• 🔍 Search Support of file in Playlist folder (limited to the folder which is open in the browser)
• ✏️ Edit Filename of File
• 🖼️ Edit Thumbnail of File

Bot Commands

index - store files in Database

Deployment

Either you could locally host, VPS, or deploy on Heroku

Deploy Locally:

git clone https://github.com/weebzone/Surf-TG
cd Surf-TG
python3 -m venv ./venv
. ./venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
python3 -m bot

• To stop the whole server, do CTRL+C

• If you want to run this server 24/7 on the VPS, follow these steps.

sudo apt install tmux -y
tmux
python3 -m bot

• now you can close the VPS and the server will run on it.

Deploy using Docker

• Clone the Repository:

git clone https://github.com/weebzone/Surf-TG
cd Surf-TG

• Start Docker daemon (SKIP if already running, mostly you don't need to do this):

sudo dockerd

• Build own Docker image:

sudo docker build -t Surf-TG .

• Start Container:

sudo docker run -p 8080:8080 Surf-TG

• To stop the running image:

sudo docker ps

sudo docker stop id

Deploy on Heroku :

Easily Deploy to Heroku use this Colab Tool

FAQ 🤔

Question 1: Is a session string required in Surf-TG?

Answer: No, it is not required.

Question 2: I am using Surf-TG without a session string, but my channel files are not showing on the web.

Answer: To initially index your files, use the /index command in AUTH_CHANNEL. This command stores all your files in the database. Please ensure that you use the /index command only in one channel at a time. Once the channel indexing is complete, you can proceed to index the next channel.

Question 3: Do I need to use the /index command every time the bot restarts or is deployed again?

Answer: No, whether you restart the bot or deploy it again, you don't need to perform initial indexing unless you change the database.

Question 4: Do I have to use the /index command every time I upload a file to the channel to index it?

Answer: No, the /index command is only used once initially. Subsequently, any files you send will automatically be stored in the database.

Question 5: When will be the cache system work?

Answer: It work only when you use the Session String.

Question 6: How are posts updated on the web when using Session String?

Answer: Login with ADMIN_USERNAME and ADMIN_PASSWORD, then clicking the reload option in the Homepage navbar clears all channel caches, to showing new posts. To clear a specific channel's cache, open the channel and click its reload option.

Question 7: How to change theme and add/remove Channel without restart?

Answer: Login with ADMIN_USERNAME and ADMIN_PASSWORD, then clicking the Edit option in the Homepage navbar from there you can change theme and add/remove channel. Make sure that channel must be seperated by ,

Question 8: Can anyone create or edit folders/files in Playlist Creator?

Answer: No, only admins with ADMIN_USERNAME and ADMIN_PASSWORD can log in to Playlist Creator.

Question 9: If i delete the mongoDb database then my playlist also deleted?

Answer: Yes, Your all the playlist will be deleted.

Question 10: If i delete the file from AUTH_CHANNEL still then it will be played in Surf-TG?

Answer: No, Once the file is deleted it will be no more playable.

Contributing

Feel free to contribute to this project if you have any further ideas

Credits

• @TechShreyash for TechZIndex Base repo

Contact Info

Copyright ©️

Copyright (C) 2024-present Weebzone under GNU Affero General Public License.

Surf-TG is Free Software: You can use, study share and improve it at your will. Specifically you can redistribute 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. Also keep in mind that all the forks of this repository MUST BE OPEN-SOURCE and MUST BE UNDER THE SAME LICENSE.