Node.js hCaptcha Honk Bot

Stop Telegram user-bots with hCaptcha

The bot we forked will block users from messaging in chat until they fill out a captcha. Each claim is met with a new restriction requiring users to fill out captcha, thus eliminating bots from claiming tokens.

How it works: Watch this short video

Production mode

Run it in production with docker-compose

• Update list of available packages

apt-get update

• Install Docker & docker-compose

apt install docker.io docker-compose

• Modify docker-compose.yml by adding bot token and other details.
• Run docker-compose

docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml up -d

Enjoy 🚀

Run it in production with docker-compose and SSL

• Update list of available packages

apt-get update

• Install Docker & docker-compose

apt install docker.io docker-compose

• Modify docker-compose-ssl.yml by adding bot token and other details.
• Replace domain.com with your domain and [email protected] with an active email (recommended) in certbot service secion of docker-compose-ssl.yml
• run ./init-certificate.sh and input the domain name. It will update the ssl configurations in nginx.
• Run docker-compose

docker-compose -f docker-compose-ssl.yml up -d

Development mode

Setting up Development Environment

1. Install NodeJS 12.x

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_12.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

2. Install PM2

npm install -g pm2

3. Clone repo

git clone [email protected]:pytour/hcaptcha-project.git

Add environment variables

For nextjs app

touch ./app/.env.local

4. Install Docker to run MongoDB RabbitMQ containers

• Install Docker & docker-compose

apt install docker.io docker-compose

• Create stack.yml (see stack.yml.example)

• Run docker-compose

docker-compose -f stack.yml up -d

To check that it work properly run:

docker-compose ps

5. Create ecosystem.config.js file (see ecosystem.config.js.example)

6. Build and Run project (Telegram Bot and NextJS app):

bash deploy_script.sh

7. Setup Nginx

sudo apt install nginx

Edit our default nginx site file

sudo vim /etc/nginx/sites-available/default

server {
    listen 80;

    server_name _;

    location / {
        # reverse proxy for next server
        proxy_pass http://localhost:8000;
        proxy_http_version 1.1;
        proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
        proxy_set_header Connection 'upgrade';
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_cache_bypass $http_upgrade;

        # we need to remove this 404 handling
        # because next's _next folder and own handling
        # try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
    }
}

Test the configuration of Nginx:

sudo nginx -t

Reload Nginx:

sudo /etc/init.d/nginx reload

Thats it 🚀