#Extension connecting text-generator to telegram bot api.

This is extension for oobabooga/text-generation-webui providing cai-chat like telegram bot interface.

REQUIREMENTS:

• oobabooga/text-generation-webui
• python-telegram-bot==13.15
• pyyaml (already in text-generation-webui requirements)
• deep-translator (already in text-generation-webui requirements)

HOW TO INSTALL:

1. clone this repo to "text-generation-webui\extensions"

cd text-generation-webui
git clone https://github.com/innightwolfsleep/text-generation-webui-telegram_bot extensions\telegram_bot

2. install "python-telegram-bot==13.15" module to your textgen environment. (run cmd_windows.bat or cmd_linux.sh and send run pip install -r text-generation-webui\extensions\telegram_bot\requirements.txt)

HOW TO USE:

1. add your bot token to "text-generation-webui\extensions\telegram_bot\telegram_token.txt" (ask https://t.me/BotFather how to get token)
2. run server.py with "--extensions telegram_bot"

FEATURES:

• chat and notebook modes
• session for all users are separative (by chat_id)
• local session history - conversation won't be lost if server restarts. Separated history between users and chars.
• chat action "typing" during generating
• buttons: continue previous message, regenerate last message, remove last messages from history, reset history button, new char loading menu
• you can load new characters from text-generation-webui\characters with "/load" command!!!
• you can load new model during conversation with /models
• chatting "#" or "+" prefix for impersonate: "#You" or "+Castle guard" or "#Alice thoughts about me"
• "!" or "-" prefix to replace last bot message
• "++" prefix permanently replace bot name during chat (switch conversation to another character)
• save/load history in chat by downloading/forwarding to chat .json file
• integrated auto-translate (you can set model/user language parameter)
• voice generating (silero), en and ru variants
• translation_as_hidden_text option in .cfg - if you want to learn english with bot)))

TBC:

• replace "X typing" by yield from generator
• group chat mode (need to be tested, does current workflow is ok?)
• migrate to aiogram or not?