
YYeTsBot
Chinese movie and TV resource site and Telegram bot, with user-shared cloud links.
- Stars
- 16.3k
- Forks
- 1.8k
- Licence
- MIT
- Language
- Python
- Last update
- 3 months ago
- Type
- App
What it is
YYeTsBot is the code behind a Chinese website and Telegram bot that index movie and TV resources and user-shared cloud-drive links. Users search for titles, save favourites, and comment or flag broken links. The README also says it can be self-hosted with Docker.
- Search for movie or TV show titles and find shared resource links
- Save favourites that sync across devices on the website
- Use the Telegram bot to look up resources from a chat
- Run your own instance with Docker using the project's build workflow
Great for
- Chinese-speaking users who want to search the site or its Telegram bot
- People who want to self-host a private copy of the site with Docker
- Developers interested in how a Telegram bot paired with a web app is built
Not ideal for
- Anyone looking for a general-purpose media library, since the README describes it as a resource index rather than a media player or host
- Users who need legal certainty about content, since the README says the site relies on ads and affiliate links and that third-party links are posted by users without author review
- Beginners who have not used Docker or a command line, since self-hosting is the main path described
How to get it
- 1
Run with Docker
You'll need: Docker
Pull the Docker image from Docker Hub
docker pull bennythink/yyetsbot - 2
Run it
- Pull the image with Docker
- Start a container from the image, following the project's Docker instructions
- Open the local address the container exposes in a browser
- Or use the public site at https://yyets.click without installing anything
- 3
Get the most out of it
- Use the favourites feature, which the README says syncs across devices
- Use the Telegram bot for quick lookups in chat
- Check the frontend repository linked in the README if you want to customise the interface
Downloads
Strengths
- Active project with a large user base, reported at about 16,300 stars
- Released under the permissive MIT license
- Offers both a website and a Telegram bot, plus Docker support for self-hosting
Trade-offs
- The README says the public site is funded by ads and affiliate links, and some content may include those links
- The project does not host video files itself; it indexes links posted by users, so link availability can change
- The README is in Chinese and truncated, so setup details are unclear from this source alone
How it compares
| Project | Stars | Type | Level | Updated | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YYeTsBot (this) | 16.3k | App | intermediate | 3 months ago | Chinese-speaking users who want to search the site or its Telegram bot |
| OpenWA | 16.5k | App | intermediate | 4 days ago | Developers who want to automate WhatsApp messages from their own systems |
| EverydayWechat | 10.3k | App | intermediate | 5.4 years ago | Developers comfortable editing YAML and running Python scripts |
Stats synced from GitHub. The assessment above was drafted with AI from the project's README on 2026-10-29 and may miss recent changes — check the README before relying on a command. MIT licence: free to use, modify and distribute, including commercially, as long as you keep the copyright notice.