Ever wanted a Shill Bot but wankers keep scamming for one OR wanted to charge you an arm and a leg?
This is a simple bot written in Python that you can use to shill (i.e. send messages) your token, or whatever, to Telegram channels.
There are a couple of runtime options available (one easy, one hard), so please read the entire doc. The easy
runtime will most likely work (but not tested) on Windows, since it is ran via a Docker container.
If you find this bot useful, please consider donating any token of value to our BSC wallet:
0xb973B103c83E467f27D04e9F31F70aaf1A83d595
. Just as an example, some paid shill bots cost ~$500.00, with few additional features.
This can cause your account to be rate limited and even banned if you shill too often. A safe wait_interval
is typically around 900 seconds.
- Download the code
- DEVELOPER: You can
git clone
the repogit clone git@github.com:surfranch/TelegramShillBot.git
- NON-DEVELOPER: You can download the ZIP archive
- https://github.com/surfranch/TelegramShillBot/archive/refs/heads/main.zip
- Save it to a path you will be able to easily navigate to
- For example:
# Mac /Users/yourusername/shillbot # Windows C:\shillbot # Linux /opt/shillbot
- For example:
- DEVELOPER: You can
- Open a
terminal
and navigate to the downloaded code- For example:
# Mac cd /Users/yourusername/shillbot # Windows cd C:\shillbot # Linux cd /opt/shillbot
- For our non-developer friends, if you have no/little experience with a
terminal
, one of these video tutorials should help
- For example:
-
Obtain a Telegram API ID
-
Grab your
api_id
,api_hash
, and appshort name
-
Create a copy of the file
settings.example.yml
in the same directory and name itsettings.yml
-
If this is your 1st time editing a YAML file, we strongly recommend taking 15 minutes to learn about it here: https://gettaurus.org/docs/YAMLTutorial/
-
Fill out the
settings.yml
with your app configuration details- BEFORE
--- api_id: API_ID api_hash: API_HASH app_short_name: APP_SHORT_NAME phone_number: "PHONE_NUMBER" splay: 7 ...
- AFTER
--- api_id: 123456 api_hash: abc123xyz456 app_short_name: MyAwesomeShillBot phone_number: "+18888675309" # ^^ make sure phone number is in quotes splay: 7 # ^^ when connecting to many (10+) channels, this should be increased ...
- BEFORE
-
Fill out the
settings.yml
with the message(s) you want to shill- BEFORE
... messages: one: | this is message 1 it can be whatever you want it to be two: | this is message 2 again, it can be whatever you want it to be so you can have some variation ...
- AFTER
... messsages: one: | i will be whatever you define me to be two: | and so will i three: | i am yet another message # ^^ you can add as many messages as you want as long as the prescribed format is followed ...
- BEFORE
-
Fill out the
settings.yml
with the channel(s) you want to shill, and how you want to shill them (i.e. what message you would like to send)- Please make sure you are using the official Telegram channel name and not what is shown in the channel title
- e.g. The official Telegram channel name for
https://t.me/TelegramTips
isTelegramTips
, even though the channel title isTelegram Tips
- This can be obtained by viewing the channel info
- e.g. The official Telegram channel name for
- BEFORE
... raid: CHANNEL_NAME: message_type: one wait_interval: 3 SOME_OTHER_CHANNEL_NAME: message_type: two wait_interval: 300
- AFTER
... raid: cryptoblank: message_type: one # ^^ this maps to a message "name" you created earlier wait_interval: 1800 # ^^ this is in seconds tsamoon: message_type: two wait_interval: 900 shiltestchannel01: message_type: three wait_interval: 60 # ^^ you can add as many channels as you want as long as the prescribed format is followed iamnotreal: message_type: three # ^^ you don't have to declare a wait interval, the channel will only be raided once iamalsonotreal: message_type: three wait_interval: 300 increase_wait_interval: 60 # ^^ you can choose to increase the channel's wait interval after every iteration ibfake: message_type: three image: images/awhsum.jpg # ^^ you can choose to send an image with the message isendmany: message_type: - one - two - three # ^^ you can choose to send multiple message types wait_interval: 900 image: images/awhsum.jpg iwillstop: message_type: three wait_interval: 900 total_messages: 50 # ^^ you can choose to limit how many messages are sent to a channel
- Please make sure you are using the official Telegram channel name and not what is shown in the channel title
-
Verify your YAML by copying the contents of
settings.yml
and paste it into http://www.yamllint.com/- Fix any reported errors
-
Sign into the Telegram channels you plan to shill, using the account you plan to shill with
- This should fix any
CAPTCHA
guards that may be in place
- This should fix any
- Install Docker
NOTE: Assumes you have navigated to the same directory as the downloaded code
- Linux/Mac users: run the Docker bot script
./build_n_run.sh
- Windows users: run the Docker commands
docker image build -t shil:latest . docker container run -it --rm shil
- Install Python v3
- v3.10 is the preferred (tested) version
- v3.5 - v3.9 should work
- Mac: https://docs.python-guide.org/starting/install3/osx/
- Windows: https://phoenixnap.com/kb/how-to-install-python-3-windows
- Linux: https://docs.python-guide.org/starting/install3/linux/
- Verify your Python version is v3.5 or greater
python3 --version Python 3.10.0
NOTE: Assumes you have navigated to the same directory as the downloaded code
- Install Python packages
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
- Run the bot
-
python3 tg_shill_bot.py
-
You will be prompted to enter your phone (or bot token) and the Telegram code you received - please fill it out.
- NOTE: We have not heard of anyone successfully using a bot token; you will most likely have to use your phone
- Whether running in Docker or locally,
Ctrl+C
should stop the process
macOS Monterey v12.1
-
$ python --version Python 3.10.0 $ pip --version pip 21.2.3 from ... (python 3.10)
- 5 unique Telegram channels
- 5 unique messages
- JPG images
- We welcome any contribution to the project (issues and PRs)
- If you have any code to contribute, please follow the fork, branch, PR process
- Does the bot still work ??
As of 3/15/2022, yes !! We know of people running it on Mac, Windows, and Linux ..
- Can I use multiple accounts on a single bot ??
No .. But -- there is nothing stopping you from running multiple bots, each using a different account, on your machine ..
- Why are there random "thank yous" appended to every message ??
When you send identical messages, multiple times to multiple channels, Telegram will ban you .. In an effort to avoid this ban, we have decided to append random "thank yous" to every message sent, and it appears to work ..
NOTE: you have the ability to modify the words used to generate the random message, and its presented format, via the settings.yml
file .. We recommend only the most skilled users even attempt this ..
- Why am I getting a FloodWaitError ??
This primarily occurs when: 1) you are attempting to connect to "many" channels, and 2) you are sending messages "frequently" .. We recommend starting with 10 channels and sending messages every 900 seconds .. Based on your results, you can increase/decrease from there ..
- Why am I getting banned ??
User invoked ban :: this is when a user has banned you from a channel, for whatever reason .. There is nothing we can do here ..
Telegram invoked ban :: this is when Telegram has banned your account, most likely for sending identical messages, multiple times to multiple channels (see FAQ about random "thank yous" above) .. To unban, this LINK seems to work ..
- Solve join captchas:
- Rose simple button click: Can use simple telethon
- Alphabet captchas: Can use some optical character recognition
- Sum of integers or logical operations: OCR, identify operator and perform the logic
- Account rotation to not get banned or rate limited ...
- UI maybe if we want to get fancy with this
- Or use existing tg clients with something like pyautogui
bot shill, shillbot, shill bot telegram, telegram shill, telegram shillbot, telegram shill bot