How to Deploy TGVCBot (<=v0.2.5) in a Ubuntu VPS

I wrote TGVCBot, a Telegram bot+userbot to play music from JioSaavn and YouTube in the group voice chats. Here I am gonna explain how to make it work in your own VPS.

Deploy TGVCBot

First SSH into your VPS and upgrade the packages:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

Install NodeJS Latest

curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_lts.x | sudo -E bash -

sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

Install Yarn and PM2

sudo npm i -g yarn pm2

Install FFMPEG & Git

sudo apt-get install git ffmpeg -y

Clone The Repo & Install Dependencies of TGVCBot

git clone https://github.com/ArnabXD/TGVCBot.git
cd TGVCBot
yarn
yarn build

Setup ENV Variables

Knowing the Variables

Name	Description	Required
API_ID	Your telegram app’s API_ID. Get it from https://my.telegram.org/apps	True
API_HASH	Your telegram app’s API_HASH. Get it from https://my.telegram.org/apps	True
BOT_TOKEN	Bot Token from @BotFather	True
LOG_CHANNEL	Chat ID of Channel/Group to keep logs. (Make sure to add VC User and Bot to the group)	True
SESSION	GramJS/Telethon session string of the VC User.	True
MAX_DURATION	Set maximum duration of the stream. Default: 36000 seconds	False
THUMBNAIL	Direct link for default thumbnail (used if audio has no thumbnails).	False

Simply copy the .env.sample to .env:

cp .env.sample .env

Now modify the .env with your values. Use your preferred text editor.

Run The Bot

Once you followed all the previous steps, now it’s time to run the bot. I will use pm2 to run the bot.

pm2 start npm --name "tgvc" -- run start --exp-backoff-restart-delay=1000

This will auto-restart bot on crashes.

With PM2 we can start the bot automatically on VPS reboot too.

# save the pm2 list
pm2 save

# get startup command
pm2 startup

This will return a command. Execute that to start bot on VPS startup.