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+## Telegram bot
+
+This example uses [chatgpt-telegram-bot](https://github.com/karfly/chatgpt_telegram_bot) to deploy a telegram bot with LocalAI instead of OpenAI.
+
+```bash
+# Clone LocalAI
+git clone https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI
+
+cd LocalAI/examples/telegram-bot
+
+git clone https://github.com/karfly/chatgpt_telegram_bot
+
+cp -rf docker-compose.yml chatgpt_telegram_bot
+
+cd chatgpt_telegram_bot
+
+mv config/config.example.yml config/config.yml
+mv config/config.example.env config/config.env
+
+# Edit config/config.yml to set the telegram bot token
+vim config/config.yml
+
+# run the bot
+docker-compose --env-file config/config.env up --build
+```
+
+Note: LocalAI is configured to download `gpt4all-j` in place of `gpt-3.5-turbo` and `stablediffusion` for image generation at the first start. Download size is >6GB, if your network connection is slow, adapt the `docker-compose.yml` file healthcheck section accordingly (replace `20m`, for instance with `1h`, etc.). 
+To configure models manually, comment the `PRELOAD_MODELS` environment variable in the `docker-compose.yml` file and see for instance the [chatbot-ui-manual example](https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/tree/master/examples/chatbot-ui-manual) `model` directory.
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+version: "3"
+
+services:
+  api:
+    image: quay.io/go-skynet/local-ai:v1.18.0-ffmpeg
+    # As initially LocalAI will download the models defined in PRELOAD_MODELS
+    # you might need to tweak the healthcheck values here according to your network connection.
+    # Here we give a timespan of 20m to download all the required files.
+    healthcheck:
+      test: ["CMD", "curl", "-f", "http://localhost:8080/readyz"]
+      interval: 1m
+      timeout: 20m
+      retries: 20
+    ports:
+      - 8080:8080
+    environment:
+      - DEBUG=true
+      - MODELS_PATH=/models
+      - IMAGE_PATH=/tmp
+      # You can preload different models here as well.
+      # See: https://github.com/go-skynet/model-gallery
+      - 'PRELOAD_MODELS=[{"url": "github:go-skynet/model-gallery/gpt4all-j.yaml", "name": "gpt-3.5-turbo"}, {"url": "github:go-skynet/model-gallery/stablediffusion.yaml"}, {"url": "github:go-skynet/model-gallery/whisper-base.yaml", "name": "whisper-1"}]'
+    volumes:
+      - ./models:/models:cached
+    command: ["/usr/bin/local-ai" ]
+  mongo:
+    container_name: mongo
+    image: mongo:latest
+    restart: always
+    ports:
+      - 127.0.0.1:${MONGODB_PORT:-27017}:${MONGODB_PORT:-27017}
+    volumes:
+      - ${MONGODB_PATH:-./mongodb}:/data/db
+    # TODO: add auth
+
+  chatgpt_telegram_bot:
+    container_name: chatgpt_telegram_bot
+    command: python3 bot/bot.py
+    restart: always
+    environment:
+      - OPENAI_API_KEY=sk---anystringhere
+      - OPENAI_API_BASE=http://api:8080/v1
+    build:
+      context: "."
+      dockerfile: Dockerfile
+    depends_on:
+      api:
+        condition: service_healthy
+      mongo:
+        condition: service_started
+
+  mongo_express:
+    container_name: mongo-express
+    image: mongo-express:latest
+    restart: always
+    ports:
+      - 127.0.0.1:${MONGO_EXPRESS_PORT:-8081}:${MONGO_EXPRESS_PORT:-8081}
+    environment:
+      - ME_CONFIG_MONGODB_SERVER=mongo
+      - ME_CONFIG_MONGODB_PORT=${MONGODB_PORT:-27017}
+      - ME_CONFIG_MONGODB_ENABLE_ADMIN=false
+      - ME_CONFIG_MONGODB_AUTH_DATABASE=chatgpt_telegram_bot
+      - ME_CONFIG_BASICAUTH_USERNAME=${MONGO_EXPRESS_USERNAME:-username}
+      - ME_CONFIG_BASICAUTH_PASSWORD=${MONGO_EXPRESS_PASSWORD:-password}
+    depends_on:
+      - mongo
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