How to setup a Telegram MTProto Proxy

So you want to setup your own proxy to help Telegram users that live in countries without digital freedom (like Iran, Russia and some others)?

Follow the instructions bellow:

First of all, make sure you have the development packages installed in your distribution (in my example, a Debian distribution): build-essential, libssl-dev and libz-dev.

1. Clone repository

git clone https://github.com/TelegramMessenger/MTProxy.git

2. To build, run the make && cd objs/bin command inside MTProxy folder (created above). Your binary will be  located in objs/bin/mtproto-proxy.

3. Obtain a secret, used to connect to telegram servers.

curl -s https://core.telegram.org/getProxySecret -o proxy-secret

4. Obtain current telegram configuration. It can change (occasionally), so we encourage you to update it once per day.

curl -s https://core.telegram.org/getProxyConfig -o proxy-multi.conf

5. Generate a secret to be used by users to connect to your proxy

head -c 16 /dev/urandom | xxd -ps

6. Run mtproto-proxy

mtproto-proxy -u nobody -p 8888 -H 443 -S --aes-pwd proxy-secret proxy-multi.conf -M 1 -P

Where:

• nobody is the actual username. mtproto-proxy calls setuid() to drop privilegies;
• 443 is the port, used by clients to connect to the proxy;
• 8888 is the local port;

You can use the local port to get statistics from mtproto. Like wget localhost:8888/stats - only via loopback

• is the secret generated at step 5;
• proxy-secret and proxy-multi.conf are obtained at steps 3 and 4;
• 1 is the number of workers. You can increase the number of workers, if you have a powerful server;
• is the tag informed by @MTProxybot when you set a sponsored channel;
• also feel free to check out other options using mtproto-proxy help.

7. Generate the link as tg://proxy?server=SERVER_NAME&port=443&secret=SECRET

8. Register your proxy with @MTProxybot on Telegram

9. Enjoy! 😁👍

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