ChatGPT Telegram Bot

This is a Node.js-based Telegram Bot application that leverages OpenAI's API Key to interface with ChatGPT and retrieve responses. This bot is equipped with the following functionalities:

✨ Features

• Send a message to the Telegram bot and get a response from ChatGPT
• Retention of conversation history in memory via ChatGPT, providing continuity to previous discussion threads
• Option to reset conversation history by executing the /reset command for a new, refreshed interaction with ChatGPT.
• Telegram user IDs whitelist to prevent abuse (Optional)

👀 Demo

🧑🏻‍💻 Installation

1. Clone the repository
2. Run yarn install
3. Copy .env.example to .env and fill in the required values
4. Run yarn start

Setting environment variables

Environment variable	Description
TELEGRAM_TOKEN	Obtain a Telegram bot token from BotFather using the /newbot command
CHATGPT_TOKEN	Obtain an OpenAI API Key from the API Keys
ONLY_ALLOW_WHITELISTED_TELEGRAM_IDS	Set to true to only allow whitelisted Telegram IDs to use the bot
WHITELISTED_TELEGRAM_IDS	A comma-separated list of Telegram IDs to allow to use the bot. You can obtain user IDs by forwarding messages to userinfobot. This variable is required if ONLY_ALLOW_WHITELISTED_TELEGRAM_IDS is set to true.

🐳 Deployment via Docker

1. You can build the Docker image for this project by running docker build -t chatgpt-telegram-bot .
2. During container deployment, set the environment variables as defined in the .env.example file.