mpgram web

MPGram Web

Lightweight Telegram web client based on MadelineProto.

Setup

• Generate your own API id by creating a Telegram app at https://my.telegram.org/apps
• Create api_value.php from the api_values.php.example using the api_id and api_hash you generated
• Create config.php from the config.php.example

Deployment

Docker

You can deploy your own instance quickly with Docker Compose - see how.

Manual deployment

• Deny access to sessions folder (s/ by default, see in config.php) and MadelineProto.log
• Install required php extensions: gd, mbstring, xml, json, fileinfo, gmp, iconv, ffi
• Download and set browscap database in php.ini to get better logged in device names
• Install Composer v2+
• Install MadelineProto and its dependencies with composer update
• Apply MadelineProto patches:

patch -p0 < patches/InternalDoc.php.patch
patch -p0 < patches/Files.php.patch

• Make a background script that restarts php service at least every hour
• Set session.gc_maxlifetime = 8640000 in php.ini
• For more details on installing MadelineProto see here

Animated stickers conversion (Optional)

• Install gifski
• Download and unpack: https://github.com/ed-asriyan/lottie-converter/releases
• Make sure www-data user has rights to it
• Edit lottie_to_gif.sh&lottie_to_png.sh, add #!/usr/bin/env bash as first line
• Edit config.php by setting CONVERT_TGS_STICKERS to true, and LOTTIE_DIR to path, where lottie_to_gif.sh is contained.

Example:

define('CONVERT_TGS_STICKERS', true);
define('LOTTIE_DIR', '/opt/lottie/');

Tested browsers

Fully supported:

• Internet Explorer 6.0 and above
• Opera 9.0 and above
• Nokia Browser for Symbian (S60v3 FP1 and above)
• S40 6th Edition
• Mozilla Firefox 2.0
• WebPositive
• Opera Mobile 12
• All modern browsers (Chrome, Safari, etc)

Partially supported (Auto update doesn't work and/or no auto scroll):

• Internet Explorer 3.0-5.0
• Opera Mini (All versions)
• S40 5th Edition or older
• Internet Explorer Mobile (?)

Not supported

• Internet Explorer 2 and older