Time on Profile Picture in Telegram

Automatically puts on your profile picture in Telegram the current time.

Requirements

• telethon
• Pillow (version >= 8.0.0)

The project uses Python3, all libraries are expected to be installed using pip3, with the following command:

sudo pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Configuration and Usage

Telegram API

At first you should generate your Telegram Application API ID and API Hash. They are expected to be secret, so store them in secure place.

1. Open https://my.telegram.org and authorize there.
2. Open "API development tools" section.
3. Create application if you have not done this before. While creating application you have to enter "App title" and "Short name" (you can enter anything you want), the others fields might be empty.
4. Your API ID and API Hash should be generated right now.

more information about this here

Standard Usage

After all mandatory things with Telegram API was done, you can finally run the project using the following command (do not forget to replace API_ID and API_HASH with yours):

python3 main.py --api_id API_ID --api_hash API_HASH

Docker without saving session

In order to build image, write the following command:

docker build -t time-on-profile-picture-telegram

In order to run image, write the following command (do not forget to replace API_ID and API_HASH with yours):

docker run -i -t time-on-profile-picture-telegram --api-id API_ID --api-hash API_HASH

Docker with saving session

In order to build image, write the following command:

docker build -t time-on-profile-picture-telegram

By the next step, you should generate session, so you need to run container with open stdin. Run it with the following command (do not forget to replace API_ID and API_HASH with yours):

docker run -i -t -v /path/to/sessions/storage:/usr/src/app/sessions time-on-profile-picture-telegram --api-id API_ID --api-hash API_HASH

Please, replace /path/to/sessions/storage with some existing directory on the host, which is secure enough. During the next run, you won't be promted for phone number, code, and password, so you can run container in detached mode:

docker run -d -t -v /path/to/sessions/storage:/usr/src/app/sessions time-on-profile-picture-telegram --api-id API_ID --api-hash API_HASH

Customizing

All changes are recommended to be made in config.py instead of using CLI-arguments. Short explanations of the fields are given using comments in the file. Short cheatsheet about CLI-arguments might be received by running with --help flag.

It is also strongly recommended to add your API ID and API Hash to config.py and as a result get rid of --api-id and --api-hash CLI-arguments.

Default Font

Font, that is used as a default one, is "DS-Digital" by Dusit Supasawat.