spigot-tg-bridge/README.md

Spigot <-> Telegram bridge plugin

This plugin will send chat messages from Minecraft to Telegram, and from Telegram to Minecraft.

How to use:

1. Download .jar file from releases page, and put it in plugins/ directory on your server OR clone this repo and run gradle shadowJar inside repo's directory.

2. If you already have telegram bot, skip this step. Otherwise create it through BotFather. You'll go through step-by-step instructions, give a bot username and most importantly, obtain a bot token. Save this token for future use. Note: in order to make your bot hear raw text messages (not commands), you must disable privacy mode option which is on by default. Go through bot's settings: Bot Settings -> Group Privacy and click Turn Off.

3. Next, you need to tell plugin about your new bot. You can either:

   • Run Spigot server, plugin will log "No config file found! Saving default one.". After that, stop server and proceed to 4th step.
   • Copy config.yml to plugins/SpigotTGBridge/ in your server directory.

4. A config.yml is just a valid YAML file, alternative for JSON, but more human-readable. Now, take bot's token which you got in 2nd step and paste them into config.yml, so it looks like this:

   botToken: abcdefghijklmnopq123123123
   # other configuration values...
   

5. Run spigot server.

6. Add you bot to chats, where you plan to use it. In each of them, run /chat_id command. The bot should respond and give special value - chat id. Now, open config.yml and paste this ID under chats section, so it will look like this:

   botToken: abcdefghijklmnopq123123123
   chats:
     # Note about doubling minus sign. This is not a mistake, first one means list element, the second one - actual minus
     - -123456789
     - 987654321
     # other chat id's...
   

7. You can extend config.yml with more tweaks, which are described in the table below, but it's not nesessary, plugin will use default values instead, if they're missing. Also, check out the example.

8. Re-run server or type tgbridge_reload into server's console.

Plugin configuration:

Field	Description	Type	Required	Default
enable	If plugin should be enabled	boolean	❌	true
botToken	Telegram bot token (How to create bot)	string	✔️	-
chats	Chats, where bot will work (to prevent using bot by unknown chats)	number[] or string[]	✔️	[]
serverStartMessage	What will be sent to chats when server starts	string	❌	'Server started.'
serverStopMessage	What will be sent to chats when server stops	string	❌	'Server stopped.'
logJoinLeave	If true, plugin will send corresponding messages to chats, when player joins or leaves server	boolean	❌	true
logFromMCtoTG	If true, plugin will send messages from players on server, to Telegram chats	boolean	❌	true
logFromTGtoMC	If true, plugin will send messages from chats, to Minecraft server	boolean	❌	true
logPlayerDeath	If true, plugin will send message to Telegram if player died	boolean	❌	false
logPlayerAsleep	If true, plugin will send message to Telegram if player fell asleep	boolean	❌	false
strings	Dictionary of tokens - strings for plugin i18n	Map<string, string>	❌	See default config
commands	Dictionary of command text used in Telegram bot	Map<string, string>	✔️	See below
telegramMessageFormat	Format string for TGtoMC chat message	string	❌	See default config
minecraftMessageFormat	Format string for MCtoTG chat message	string	❌	See default config

Telegram bot commands:

Commands are customizeable through config. If command doesn't exist in config, it will be disabled

Command	Description
/online	Get players, currently online
/time	Get time on server
/chat_id	Get current chat ID (in which command was run) for config.yml

Format string:

+--------+ >--minecraftMessageFormat(message)-> +--------------+
| Spigot |                                      | Telegram bot |
+--------+ <--telegramMessageFormat(message)--< +--------------+

Applies to telegramMessageFormat and minecraftMessageFormat configurations. Must contain %username% and %message% inside. You can customize message color with it (coloring works only for telegramMessageFormat). You can customize bold/italics/stirethrough formatting (works only for minecraftMessageFormat). See Minecraft message color codes and Telegram message formatting for more information. This feature is related to this issue

Plugin commands:

Command	Description
tgbridge_reload	Reload plugin configuration w/o need to stop the server. Works only through server console