Reelay

Turn the releases that scroll past in Telegram into an organized media library on your 115 drive.

Self-hosted · AI recognition · You decide · Every transfer verified

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The channels and bots you follow post a flood of releases every day, and you only want a few of them. Reelay watches them with your own Telegram account. An LLM reads each message to work out the title, season, episodes and release details, and TMDB plus the actual files in the share double-check it. When you tap Save in Telegram, Reelay saves the share into your own 115 cloud drive and renames and files it the way Jellyfin / Emby expect. The next time you open your media server, the new episode is already there.

Set it up once in the web console; after that, approving, correcting, following shows and reading the daily report all happen in Telegram.

Reel + Relay: relaying releases from your message feed into your library.

Note

The web console, Telegram messages and the documentation are in Simplified Chinese. The examples below are translated.

✨ Highlights

🧠 Understands messages AI reads title, episodes and release details; TMDB fixes the title. Rules take over when AI is down.	📱 Done in Telegram Save, reroute or follow a show in one tap; fix a wrong match with one line.	🛡️ Transfers you can trust Checkpoint before every call, verify after. Uncertain results are re-checked, never re-sent.
🗂️ Organized on arrival Auto-filed and renamed by template; duplicates go to you, are skipped, kept, or upgraded.	📺 Follows shows for you New episodes save themselves, missing ones are flagged daily, and finished seasons unsubscribe.	🧩 Works everywhere Web console, Telegram bot and MCP; one folder is one plugin.

💬 What it looks like in Telegram

Approval card

Saved notification

🖼 (TMDB backdrop) 📺 The Long Season (2023) · S01 E01-E10 🌟 Rating: 8.6 🎭 Genre: Drama · Mystery · Crime 🌍 Region: Mainland China 👥 Cast: Fan Wei, Qin Hao, Chen Minghao 🖥 Resolution: 2160p · Dolby Vision 💬 Subtitles: Simplified Chinese 📦 Size: 38.6 GB 📖 Overview: ▍ In 1997, taxi driver Wang Xiang… (expandable) 📂 Save to: /TV/Chinese TV 📡 Source: @example_channel [ ✅ Save ] [ 🚫 Ignore ] [ 📂 Folder ] [ ✏️ Fix ] [ 🔔 Follow ] [ ⛔ Stop receiving ] [ 🎬 TMDB details ]

🖼 (TMDB backdrop) ✅ Saved 📺 The Long Season (2023) · S01 E01-E10 🌟 Rating: 8.6 🎭 Genre: Drama · Mystery · Crime 🖥 Resolution: 2160p · Dolby Vision 📦 Size: 38.6 GB 📂 Location: /TV/Chinese TV/The Long Season (2023) [tmdbid=…]/Season 01 📄 Files: 10, The Long Season - S01E01.mkv, The Long Season - S01E02.mkv … [ 🎬 TMDB details ]

What you can do without opening the web console:

When	In Telegram
Recognition is wrong	Tap ✏️ Fix on the card and send one line such as title Blossoms season 2; anything you leave out stays the same. Or ask for re-recognition
A transfer or organize step stops	The alert offers the right buttons: verify the transfer, continue with what arrived, reorganize, delete or overwrite, retry
Things piled up	/pending opens each card, or approves / ignores everything at once
Following shows	/subs shows what's saved and missing, cancels or resumes subscriptions and handles suggestions; missing-episode reminders can be marked "don't wait"
Never want a title again	Tap ⛔ Stop receiving on the card; /ignored brings it back
How is it running	/status for an overview; a daily report arrives every day
Just ask	With AI configured: "What's pending?", "Approve these episodes of X and save them to Anime"

Re-scanning the QR code after the 115 login expires, and all configuration, happen in the web console. See the Telegram and agents guide.

🚀 Quick start

All you need is Docker and a compose.yaml. Images are published for amd64 and arm64:

mkdir reelay && cd reelay
curl -fsSLO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Derrors/reelay/main/compose.yaml
docker compose pull
docker compose run --rm --no-deps --user root worker chown -R 10001:10001 /app/data
docker compose up -d web          # console at http://127.0.0.1:28080

Fill in Telegram, AI and 115 under Settings in the console, then log in with your personal Telegram account and start listening:

docker compose run --rm --no-deps -it worker python -m reelay.login
docker compose up -d

Then add the channels or bots to watch under Settings → Sources: paste a few sample messages, let AI draft the source's rules, and tap Test recognition on the card to check the result. Where to get each account and how to verify your first release is covered in the quick start (Chinese).

Without Docker, or try a simulation first

Simulation mode runs the whole pipeline on an in-memory database with built-in sample messages, with no accounts needed:

git clone https://github.com/Derrors/reelay && cd reelay
python3.12 -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -e .
python -m reelay.main --dry-run

Running directly on your machine:

pip install -e ".[all]"
(cd web && npm ci && npm run build)
python -m reelay.web       # web console
python -m reelay.login     # log in with your personal Telegram account
python -m reelay.main      # listener and background worker (separate terminal)

🎞️ What the library looks like

Filed by category by default (or by media type, or flat). Naming templates are editable in the console, and Preview organizing shows the result before you save:

Movies/
└── Chinese Movies/
    └── The Wandering Earth II (2023) [tmdbid=…]/
        └── The Wandering Earth II (2023) - 4K.mkv
TV/
└── Chinese TV/
    └── The Long Season (2023) [tmdbid=…]/
        └── Season 01/
            ├── The Long Season - S01E01.mkv
            └── The Long Season - S01E02.mkv
Anime/
└── Japanese Anime/
    └── …
Other/
└── Documentaries/
    └── …

🧭 Design

AI proposes → sources of truth verify → you decide → your decisions feed back to the AI.

AI reads messages and makes suggestions; TMDB and the real files in the share keep it honest, and anything uncertain goes to you. Every fix you make on a card makes the next recognition from the same source more accurate. Transferring, renaming and deduplication are always done by deterministic code and verified by reading back. See architecture (Chinese).

📚 Documentation

The documentation is in Chinese.

Document	Contents
Quick start	Accounts, first launch, initial setup, verifying your first release
Deployment	Docker, access and security, upgrades and rollback, backups, health checks and recovery
Configuration	System settings, per-source recognition rules, plugin settings, secrets and runtime files
Telegram and agents	Control bot buttons, commands and chat; MCP for Claude and other agents
Plugins	Extension points, PipelineContext, calling AI, metadata conventions
Architecture	State machine, how AI and rules divide the work, transfer and recovery boundaries
Changelog	What changed in each release

📌 Status

Note

Early (alpha). The author uses it daily, and the full manual-approval flow runs continuously on a real account. Automatic approval, many sources and long-running containers are less tested; feedback is welcome. Runs on macOS / Linux; on Windows, use Docker.

Warning

Reelay does not provide or index any content. It only processes messages your own account can see and saves to your own drive. Automating a personal Telegram account may get it banned, and calling 115 APIs too often may trigger rate limits or risk control. Read the disclaimer (Chinese) before use.

🤝 Contributing

Issues and PRs are welcome. See CONTRIBUTING for the development setup and commit conventions, and report security issues privately as described in SECURITY.

License

MIT © Derrors