# `telegram-bot` Allow アイリ to talk to you and many other users in Telegram. ## Getting started Clone & install dependencies: ```shell git clone git@github.com:moeru-ai/airi.git bun install bun run build:packages ``` Start Ollama instance for embedding models ```shell ollama start ollama pull nomic-embed-text ``` Create a `.env.local` file: ```shell cd integrations/telegram-bot cp .env .env.local ``` Fill-in the following credentials as configurations: ```shell DATABASE_URL=postgres://postgres:123456@localhost:5432/postgres TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN='' LLM_API_BASE_URL='' LLM_API_KEY='' LLM_MODEL='' LLM_RESPONSE_LANGUAGE='' LLM_VISION_API_BASE_URL='' LLM_VISION_API_KEY='' LLM_VISION_MODEL='' EMBEDDING_API_BASE_URL='' EMBEDDING_API_KEY='' EMBEDDING_MODEL='' EMBEDDING_DIMENSION='' ``` For example: ```shell DATABASE_URL=postgres://postgres:123456@localhost:5433/postgres TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN=':' # get one from @BotFather LLM_API_BASE_URL='https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/' # if you use OpenRouter too LLM_API_KEY='sk-or-v1-' LLM_MODEL='deepseek/deepseek-chat-v3-0324:free' LLM_RESPONSE_LANGUAGE='English' LLM_VISION_API_BASE_URL='https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/' LLM_VISION_API_KEY='sk-or-v1-' LLM_VISION_MODEL='openai/gpt-4o' # as long as the model supports image input EMBEDDING_API_BASE_URL='http://localhost:11434/v1/' # ollama EMBEDDING_API_KEY='' EMBEDDING_MODEL='nomic-embed-text' # embedding model EMBEDDING_DIMENSION='768' # must set ``` Start both DB and the bot: ```shell docker compose up -d bun run --filter @proj-airi/telegram-bot start ```