ffmpegbot

Telegram Bot for re-encoding media

Features

• change a video resolution, bitrate, frame rate, speed
• change an audio bitrate, volume, pitch
• apply audio effects, compressor
• extract or remove audio from the video
• resend video note as a regular video, or video as an audio track
• output audio spectrum for quick analysis

Requirements

• Telegram bot username and token, @BotFather
• JRE 17+ or JDK 17+ (for build)
• ffmpeg must be installed and available in PATH.
• python3 version 3.8+ must be installed and available in PATH.
• yt-dlp for /dl command.

Installation

Manual

# Build
./gradlew shadowJar
# Config
cp ffmpegbot.yaml.template ffmpegbot.yaml
vim ffmpegbot.yaml
mkdir {input,output}
# Run
java -jar ./build/libs/ffmpegbot-1.2-SNAPSHOT-all.jar

Using Docker

Note: FFmpeg binary might be installed with limited number of filters and codecs. Some bot features might not work (Audio pitch, robot effect, etc).

docker run -d -t -i \
  -e BOT_TOKEN='...' \
  -e APP_ID='...' \
  -e APP_HASH='...' \
  -e SUPERUSERS='12345' \
  -e ALLOWED_USERS='12346,12347' \
  --name ffmpegbot ghcr.io/annimon/ffmpegbot:latest

Environment variables

• BOT_TOKEN — Telegram bot token
• APP_ID — Telegram API app_id (see https://core.telegram.org/api/obtaining_api_id)
• APP_HASH — Telegram API app_hash
• SUPERUSERS — Comma-separated list of superusers. Superuser can execute /run command
• ALLOWED_USERS — Comma-separated list of allowed user ids