CharacterAI Telegram bot

About

A Telegram bot that can be used to talk with CharacterAI characters. It's self hosted.

Warning

This is unnofficial, so there is a slight possibility that your CharacterAI account gets banned if you use this.

Notes

To do

• Make it possible to login and choose the character using the bot
• Fix webhooks stuff

Helpful links:

• https://www.npmjs.com/package/node_characterai
• https://grammy.dev/

Getting Started

To get a local copy up and running follow these simple steps.

Prerequisites

• NodeJs
• npm

Installation

1. Clone the repo

   git clone https://github.com/Pikku-a/telegramXcharacterai

2. Install NPM packages

   npm install

3. Rename example.env to .env and edit it:

   TELEGRAM_TOKEN="telegram bot token from @botfather"
   CHARACTERAI_ID="character ai id that you can get from the last part of the url when in the chat"
   CHARACTERAI_ACCESSTOKEN="See: How to find characterAI access token"
   WEBHOOKS="Doesn't work currently so ignore it"

4. Start Server

   npm start

How to find CharacterAI access token

• Open the Character.AI website in your browser (https://old.character.ai)
• Open the developer tools (F12, Ctrl+Shift+I, or Cmd+J)
• Go to the Storage section and click on Local Storage
• Look for the char_token key
• Open the object, right click on value and copy your session token. Don't share the access code to anyone.

Credit

I built this on top of this javascript-chatbot by DevXprite - 2022, Licensed MIT.

However, the project has changed a lot and there is not much code left from that. But some stuff is left. Like the Vercel stuff. For example, there is this button in this readme:

Click this button to configure your Project and deploy it to Vercel.

I don't know what it does. I haven't tried clicking on it, my courage was not enough. Legend says that people who have clicked on it have never returned. Did they succeed? Or fail? Or something worse...