integrate telegram bot

telegram-otp-bot/src/env.js

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import { readFileSync } from 'node:fs';
 import { dirname, resolve } from 'node:path';
 import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';
+import { parseProxyUrl } from './proxy.js';
 
 const projectRoot = resolve(dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url)), '..');
 
@@ -60,10 +61,32 @@ if (apiKey.length < 16) {
   process.exit(1);
 }
 
+// Opt-in outbound proxy for this process's own hop to api.telegram.org (filtered in Iran). Absent ⇒ direct,
+// exactly as before. TELEGRAM_PROXY_URL wins so the relay can be proxied without proxying anything else on the
+// box; the standard variables are honoured as a fallback because that is where a container already puts it.
+const proxyUrl = (
+  process.env.TELEGRAM_PROXY_URL ??
+  process.env.HTTPS_PROXY ?? process.env.https_proxy ??
+  process.env.ALL_PROXY ?? process.env.all_proxy ??
+  ''
+).trim();
+
+let proxy = null;
+if (proxyUrl) {
+  try {
+    proxy = parseProxyUrl(proxyUrl);
+  } catch (error) {
+    // Fail at boot: a misspelled proxy would otherwise surface as an unexplained delivery failure per OTP.
+    console.error(`FATAL: ${error.message}`);
+    process.exit(1);
+  }
+}
+
 export const config = {
   botToken,
   chatIds,
   apiKey,
+  proxy,
   host: (process.env.HOST ?? '127.0.0.1').trim(),
   port: Number(process.env.PORT ?? 5010),
   redactCodeInLogs: (process.env.REDACT_CODE_IN_LOGS ?? 'false').toLowerCase() === 'true',

telegram-otp-bot/src/proxy.js

@@ -0,0 +1,204 @@
+import net from 'node:net';
+import tls from 'node:tls';
+import { Buffer } from 'node:buffer';
+
+/**
+ * Opt-in outbound proxy for the one hop that is filtered in Iran: this process → api.telegram.org.
+ *
+ * Node's built-in `fetch` only honours `HTTPS_PROXY` on Node 24+ and only behind `NODE_USE_ENV_PROXY`, which
+ * makes "does the proxy apply?" depend on the runtime. Tunnelling the socket here instead keeps the behaviour
+ * identical on every supported Node and needs no dependency: an HTTP `CONNECT` tunnel or a SOCKS5 handshake,
+ * both of which any local VPN/proxy client (or a proxy container on the VPS) exposes.
+ *
+ * With no proxy configured nothing in this file runs — the request goes out directly, as before.
+ */
+
+const SOCKS_VERSION = 0x05;
+const SOCKS_NO_AUTH = 0x00;
+const SOCKS_USER_PASS = 0x02;
+const SOCKS_CMD_CONNECT = 0x01;
+const SOCKS_ATYP_DOMAIN = 0x03;
+
+/** Parses a proxy URL into the shape the connectors need, or throws with a usable message. */
+export function parseProxyUrl(raw) {
+  let url;
+  try {
+    url = new URL(raw);
+  } catch {
+    throw new Error(`invalid proxy URL "${raw}" — expected e.g. http://127.0.0.1:10809 or socks5://127.0.0.1:10808`);
+  }
+
+  const scheme = url.protocol.replace(':', '').toLowerCase();
+  if (!['http', 'https', 'socks', 'socks5', 'socks5h'].includes(scheme)) {
+    throw new Error(`unsupported proxy scheme "${scheme}" — use http, https, or socks5`);
+  }
+
+  const port = url.port ? Number(url.port) : scheme === 'https' ? 443 : scheme === 'http' ? 8080 : 1080;
+
+  return {
+    scheme,
+    host: url.hostname,
+    port,
+    username: url.username ? decodeURIComponent(url.username) : '',
+    password: url.password ? decodeURIComponent(url.password) : '',
+    // What to print in logs — never the credentials.
+    label: `${scheme}://${url.hostname}:${port}`,
+  };
+}
+
+/** Returns a socket already tunnelled to `host:port` through the proxy. The caller TLS-wraps it. */
+export function connectThroughProxy(proxy, host, port, timeoutMs) {
+  const connect = proxy.scheme === 'http' || proxy.scheme === 'https' ? httpConnect : socks5Connect;
+  return withTimeout(connect(proxy, host, port), timeoutMs, `proxy ${proxy.label} did not connect`);
+}
+
+function openToProxy(proxy) {
+  return proxy.scheme === 'https'
+    ? tls.connect({ host: proxy.host, port: proxy.port, servername: proxy.host })
+    : net.connect({ host: proxy.host, port: proxy.port });
+}
+
+/** RFC 7231 `CONNECT` tunnel — what an HTTP proxy exposes for TLS traffic. */
+function httpConnect(proxy, host, port) {
+  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+    const socket = openToProxy(proxy);
+    const fail = (error) => {
+      socket.destroy();
+      reject(error);
+    };
+
+    socket.once('error', fail);
+    socket.once(proxy.scheme === 'https' ? 'secureConnect' : 'connect', () => {
+      const lines = [`CONNECT ${host}:${port} HTTP/1.1`, `Host: ${host}:${port}`];
+      if (proxy.username) {
+        const credentials = Buffer.from(`${proxy.username}:${proxy.password}`).toString('base64');
+        lines.push(`Proxy-Authorization: Basic ${credentials}`);
+      }
+      socket.write(`${lines.join('\r\n')}\r\n\r\n`);
+    });
+
+    let buffer = Buffer.alloc(0);
+    const onData = (chunk) => {
+      buffer = Buffer.concat([buffer, chunk]);
+      const headerEnd = buffer.indexOf('\r\n\r\n');
+      if (headerEnd === -1) return;
+
+      socket.removeListener('data', onData);
+      const statusLine = buffer.subarray(0, buffer.indexOf('\r\n')).toString('latin1');
+      if (!/^HTTP\/1\.[01] 200/.test(statusLine)) {
+        fail(new Error(`proxy refused CONNECT: ${statusLine}`));
+        return;
+      }
+
+      // A compliant proxy sends nothing after the blank line, but push anything it did back for the TLS layer.
+      const leftover = buffer.subarray(headerEnd + 4);
+      if (leftover.length) socket.unshift(leftover);
+
+      socket.removeListener('error', fail);
+      resolve(socket);
+    };
+    socket.on('data', onData);
+  });
+}
+
+/** RFC 1928 SOCKS5 (+ RFC 1929 username/password) — what most local proxy clients expose. */
+async function socks5Connect(proxy, host, port) {
+  const socket = openToProxy(proxy);
+
+  try {
+    await once(socket, 'connect');
+    const { read, release } = reader(socket);
+
+    const methods = proxy.username ? [SOCKS_NO_AUTH, SOCKS_USER_PASS] : [SOCKS_NO_AUTH];
+    socket.write(Buffer.from([SOCKS_VERSION, methods.length, ...methods]));
+
+    const greeting = await read(2);
+    if (greeting[0] !== SOCKS_VERSION) throw new Error('proxy is not SOCKS5');
+
+    if (greeting[1] === SOCKS_USER_PASS) {
+      const user = Buffer.from(proxy.username);
+      const pass = Buffer.from(proxy.password);
+      socket.write(Buffer.concat([
+        Buffer.from([0x01, user.length]), user, Buffer.from([pass.length]), pass,
+      ]));
+      const auth = await read(2);
+      if (auth[1] !== 0x00) throw new Error('SOCKS5 proxy rejected the credentials');
+    } else if (greeting[1] !== SOCKS_NO_AUTH) {
+      throw new Error('SOCKS5 proxy demands an unsupported authentication method');
+    }
+
+    // ATYP = domain, so the *proxy* resolves api.telegram.org — local DNS is filtered too.
+    const target = Buffer.from(host);
+    const request = Buffer.concat([
+      Buffer.from([SOCKS_VERSION, SOCKS_CMD_CONNECT, 0x00, SOCKS_ATYP_DOMAIN, target.length]),
+      target,
+      Buffer.from([(port >> 8) & 0xff, port & 0xff]),
+    ]);
+    socket.write(request);
+
+    const reply = await read(4);
+    if (reply[1] !== 0x00) throw new Error(`SOCKS5 proxy refused CONNECT (code ${reply[1]})`);
+
+    // Drain the bound address so the stream starts at the tunnelled payload.
+    const boundLength = reply[3] === 0x01 ? 4 : reply[3] === 0x04 ? 16 : (await read(1))[0];
+    await read(boundLength + 2);
+
+    return release();
+  } catch (error) {
+    socket.destroy();
+    throw error;
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Reads exactly N bytes at a time during the handshake. `release()` hands the socket back with any
+ * already-buffered bytes pushed in front, so the TLS layer sees an untouched stream.
+ */
+function reader(socket) {
+  let buffer = Buffer.alloc(0);
+  let pending = null;
+
+  const pump = () => {
+    if (!pending || buffer.length < pending.size) return;
+    const { size, resolve } = pending;
+    pending = null;
+    const chunk = buffer.subarray(0, size);
+    buffer = buffer.subarray(size);
+    resolve(chunk);
+  };
+
+  socket.on('data', (chunk) => {
+    buffer = Buffer.concat([buffer, chunk]);
+    pump();
+  });
+
+  const read = (size) => new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+    pending = { size, resolve };
+    socket.once('error', reject);
+    pump();
+  });
+
+  const release = () => {
+    socket.removeAllListeners('data');
+    socket.removeAllListeners('error');
+    if (buffer.length) socket.unshift(buffer);
+    return socket;
+  };
+
+  return { read, release };
+}
+
+function once(emitter, event) {
+  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+    emitter.once(event, resolve);
+    emitter.once('error', reject);
+  });
+}
+
+function withTimeout(promise, timeoutMs, message) {
+  let timer;
+  const timeout = new Promise((_, reject) => {
+    timer = setTimeout(() => reject(new Error(`${message} within ${timeoutMs}ms`)), timeoutMs);
+  });
+  return Promise.race([promise, timeout]).finally(() => clearTimeout(timer));
+}

telegram-otp-bot/src/server.js

@@ -96,6 +96,7 @@ const routes = {
     if (!phone || !code) return json(res, 400, { ok: false, error: '`phone` and `code` are required' });
 
     const shown = config.redactCodeInLogs ? '******' : code;
+    console.log(`sending OTP ${shown} for ${phone} → ${config.chatIds.length} recipients`);
     return deliver(res, otpMessage(phone, code), `otp ${shown} for ${phone}`);
   },
 
@@ -133,6 +134,7 @@ server.listen(config.port, config.host, async () => {
   console.log(`balinyaar telegram-otp-bot listening on http://${config.host}:${config.port}`);
   console.log(`  recipients: ${config.chatIds.length ? config.chatIds.join(', ') : '(none — call GET /chat_ids to discover)'}`);
   console.log('  auth:       X-Api-Key required on every route except GET /health');
+  console.log(`  proxy:      ${config.proxy ? config.proxy.label : '(none — direct to api.telegram.org)'}`);
 
   try {
     const me = await getBotIdentity();

telegram-otp-bot/src/telegram.js

@@ -1,31 +1,64 @@
+import https from 'node:https';
+import tls from 'node:tls';
+import { Buffer } from 'node:buffer';
 import { config } from './env.js';
+import { connectThroughProxy } from './proxy.js';
 
-const API_BASE = `https://api.telegram.org/bot${config.botToken}`;
+const API_HOST = 'api.telegram.org';
 
 async function callApi(method, payload, { timeoutMs = 10_000 } = {}) {
-  const controller = new AbortController();
-  const timer = setTimeout(() => controller.abort(), timeoutMs);
+  const { status, text } = await postJson(`/bot${config.botToken}/${method}`, payload, timeoutMs);
 
+  let body = {};
   try {
-    const response = await fetch(`${API_BASE}/${method}`, {
+    body = JSON.parse(text);
+  } catch {
+    // keep the empty body; the status check below reports it
+  }
+
+  if (status < 200 || status >= 300 || body.ok !== true) {
+    // Telegram carries the real failure in `description` (e.g. "chat not found" when the
+    // recipient never messaged the bot first) — surface it verbatim so the cause is obvious.
+    throw new Error(body.description ?? `HTTP ${status}`);
+  }
+
+  return body.result;
+}
+
+/**
+ * One HTTPS POST to Telegram. Built on `node:https` rather than `fetch` so the optional proxy applies
+ * identically on every supported Node version: with a proxy configured the request rides a tunnelled socket
+ * (see `proxy.js`), without one it takes the default direct route.
+ */
+async function postJson(path, payload, timeoutMs) {
+  const body = JSON.stringify(payload);
+  const tunnel = config.proxy
+    ? await connectThroughProxy(config.proxy, API_HOST, 443, timeoutMs)
+    : null;
+
+  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+    const request = https.request({
+      host: API_HOST,
+      port: 443,
+      path,
       method: 'POST',
-      headers: { 'content-type': 'application/json' },
-      body: JSON.stringify(payload),
-      signal: controller.signal,
+      headers: { 'content-type': 'application/json', 'content-length': Buffer.byteLength(body) },
+      // Only set when tunnelling: passing createConnection is what makes node skip the default agent.
+      ...(tunnel ? { createConnection: () => tls.connect({ socket: tunnel, servername: API_HOST }) } : {}),
+    }, (response) => {
+      let text = '';
+      response.setEncoding('utf8');
+      response.on('data', (chunk) => { text += chunk; });
+      response.on('end', () => resolve({ status: response.statusCode, text }));
     });
 
-    const body = await response.json().catch(() => ({}));
-    if (!response.ok || body.ok !== true) {
-      // Telegram carries the real failure in `description` (e.g. "chat not found" when the
-      // recipient never messaged the bot first) — surface it verbatim so the cause is obvious.
-      const reason = body.description ?? `HTTP ${response.status}`;
-      throw new Error(reason);
-    }
-
-    return body.result;
-  } finally {
-    clearTimeout(timer);
-  }
+    request.setTimeout(timeoutMs, () => request.destroy(new Error(`no response within ${timeoutMs}ms`)));
+    request.on('error', (error) => {
+      if (tunnel) tunnel.destroy();
+      reject(error);
+    });
+    request.end(body);
+  });
 }
 
 /** Sends one message to every configured chat id. Never rejects — per-recipient outcomes are returned. */