Approve your work from your phone - with one tap.

In this hands-on project you build your own Telegram bot that sends you any file from a folder on your PC - a video, a photo, a document - with Approve and Reject buttons. Tap one on your phone and the file moves into the right folder on your computer. No server, no website, no monthly cost.

What you’ll build

• Your own bot, created with Telegram’s BotFather
• bot.py: sends every file in a folder to your phone with buttons
• A listener that moves files into approved or rejected folders when you tap, and keeps a log

What you’ll learn

• How Telegram bots work (tokens, chat IDs and messages)
• How a program on your PC can wait for button taps without a server
• Sending photos, videos and documents from Python
• Keeping your bot private so only you can press the buttons

What you get

• An 11-lesson step-by-step course with real screenshots
• The finished bot, a settings file, a sample inbox and a README

You need: Windows or Mac, the Telegram app, and the free lessons What is the terminal?, What is Python?, What is an API? and What is JSON? (links inside). Nothing to install, no fees.

Time: about 25 minutes.