Liker is a Telegram bot that allows you to add reactions (likes, etc.) to channel posts. Liker also supports post comments.

You can either use an existing Liker bot available at https://t.me/liker10_bot. In order to do that:

1. Give Liker bot an admin permission to edit posts in your channel.

2. If you have a discussion group (e.g. post comments) — add Liker to the group also.

3. In order to customize reactions (👍 is a default reaction) send the following command to Liker in Telegram:

/set_reactions —channel_id [YOUR_CHANNEL_ID] —reactions [SPACE_SEPARATED_REACTIONS]

For example:

/set_reactions —channel_id @awesome_channel —reactions 👍 ❤ 😡

To build your own version of Liker:

1. Download the source code

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/luckybots/liker.git

If you don't add --recurse-submodules -- you'll get an error during make build (make: *** No rule to make target 'build')

2. Create and customize data/config.json according to data/config_example.json. In the config.json provide bot_token value.

3. To run with Docker use

make build
make run-it