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A very stupid but very useful Telegram bot (media downloading, OCR + translate, text translate, funny auto-responses)

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Chuddy, self-hosted media downloading, translation and OCR Telegram bot

Name: Chuddy, self-hosted media downloading, translation and OCR Telegram bot
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Author: kivir

by kivir·May 15, 2026·4 points·0 comments

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AI Analysis

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Useful Telegram bot wrapper, but yt-dlp bots already exist in dozens of repos.

Strengths

•Combines media downloading, OCR, and translation into a single group-chat utility.
•Zero telemetry and fully self-hosted via Docker Compose for privacy control.
•REST API allows external triggering of downloads and task management.

Weaknesses

•Functionally identical to many existing open-source Telegram downloader bots.
•Reliance on third-party translation APIs introduces potential rate limits or costs.

Post Description

My latest project, about 60% of the codebase was written with Z.ai's GLM-5.1 model. It's basically a Telegram bot that allows for embedding/downloading media easier within group chats. Absolutely 0 telemetry and you're free to edit the code as you wish. I know this is so small and stupid compared to the cool stuff I read here every day, but I'm very proud of my accomplishments as I had to learn a lot to get this to work as intended. Anyways enjoy ^^