Emby-Telegram-Notifier

simple webhook server to emby Telegram notification

Features

• Integrates with the webhook plugin.
• Telegram notifications with media images and summary when a new movie or series is added to Emby.
• Some pictures:
  

Installation

Create a new telegram-bot

1 - Search Botfather in telegram.
2 - Send command /newbot to Botfather.
3 - Give the Telegram bot a name.
4 - Give the Telegram bot a unique username, it must end in "bot".
5 - Save the Telegram bot's access token, we will use it later in the configuration file.
6 - Get your chat ID by starting a chat with your bot, sending a message and then visiting https://api.telegram.org/bot<YOUR_BOT_TOKEN>/getUpdates to find the chat ID in the returned JSON.

Run the webhook-server

1 - Create config.yaml file like example in this repo.
   1.1 - You can add admins to get all notification from emby-server.
   1.2 - You can add users to get new/delete items from emby-server.
(you can add users while the service is still running)
2 - Run the server with docker/podman:
docker run:

docker run -d --restart=always -v </path/to/config/dir>:/config -p 5000:5000 yoas1/emby-telegram-notifier:v0.1

docker compose:

version: "3.5"
services:
  emby-webhook:
    container_name: emby-webhook
    image: yoas1/emby-telegram-notifier:v0.1
    volumes:
      - </path/to/config/dir>:/config
    ports:
      - 5000:5000
    restart: always

3 - Create emby notification:

• Go to Settings --> Notifications
• Add Notifications --> select Webhook:
  • Name: name to your notification
  • Url: http://server-ip:5000/webhook
  • Request content type: application/json
  • Events: select your send events to telegram

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Feel free to open issues or submit pull requests for new features, bug fixes, or improvements.