If you want to run it on heroku, you can just click the button below.
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Clone the github repo
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Execute npm install
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Create a Discord webhook. You can do this by going to Server settings -> Webhooks. Copy the URL, you'll need it later.
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Set env variables:
TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN - you can get this by speaking with @BotFather on telegram and creating a new bot.
DISCORD_TOKEN - the bot token for your Discord application. Create a new app at the Discord Developer Portal, go to the bot section, click on Create a bot and copy the bot token it gives to you.
TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID - The ChatId of the telegram group you want to bridge
DISCORD_CHANNEL_ID - The Discord ChannelId of the channel you want to bridge
webhook_id and webhook_token. Those are part of the webhook URL you copied. webhook_id is a 18 characters long int, webhook_token is a ~70 chars long randomly generated string. Those are seperated by slashes in the url.
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Run npm start or node server.js and you're set!