TgDev News

The channel is temporarily closed. The place to talk about tgdev bots in English is @tgdev_en. Most of conversations happen in Russian in @tgdev_ru group though.

I have moved bots @watchdog_robot and @watchdog_clone_robot to new engine. Unexpected things might happen! You may send your feedback to @tgdev_en chat.

A few weeks ago Telegram deleted RegDateBot. Today Telegram deleted TgScanRobot. New bots are available: RegDateBot —> @regdate_clone_bot TgScanRobot —> @tgscan_clone_robot

Several TgDev bots have recently been removed, namely: - @joinhide2_bot - @joinhide4_bot - @joinhide8_bot These bots, like any other TgDev bots, have never been engaged in sending spam and, in principle, advertising of any kind. If you have a desire to participate in the development of the TgDev project, you can contact the Telegram support service or any other communication channel with the Telegram team and voice this problem. Here are the official contacts of the Telegram support service: - abuse@telegram.org -- here you can complain about a channel or bot that violates the law - recover@telegram.org -- you can contact here about an account that was deleted by the Telegram moderation system - support@telegram.org -- standard email address of the Telegram support service - - https://telegram.org/support -- a web page for sending your question to the Telegram support service

I continue the process of dragging TgDev bots to the new engine. At the moment, all bots from the list work on the new engine: @hushrobot @nopigrobot @nohello_robot @nopm_bot @nohelprobot @grep_robot @lang_blocker_bot @daysandbox_bot @namefilterbot @noarab_bot @nochinabot @freqrobot @nosticker_bot The new engine contains all the functions from each bot that migrated to the new engine. If you have several bots from this list installed in your chat, then it makes sense to leave only one bot. Otherwise, you will receive several identical messages from each of the bots when any module of the new engine deletes a message. By default, when installing a bot in a new chat, all modules are disabled. During the migration process, I enabled the grep module for those chats where @grep_robot was configured. As for other modules, they may be disabled. If the operation of a module is important to you, make sure it is enabled in your chat. For example, the activity of the nopig module can be viewed with the command /tgdev/nopig config. All modules of the new engine are multilingual. At the moment, two languages are available: Russian and English. Among the interesting features of the new engine, it is worth noting the ability to customize the bot through personal messages, as well as the ability to enter multiple values with one command into a list-of-values type setting. Detailed documentation on the new engine is available here: https://tgdev.io/ru/bot/tgdev Only Russian language yet, use google translator to read it.

I have added a new feature to joinhide*_bot bots (from 1st to 21st). It is ability to delete all system messages. The feature is disabled by default. To turn it on use a command +joinhide set delete_all_system_msg yes.

@freqrobot Now the bot counts gallery-message as one message. Previously it counted every photo in gallery as separate message.

@watchdog_robot, @watchdog_clone_robot Now, even if filters "mention", "group_mention", "link" are enabled, dog robots will not remove links which points to group which links are posted to.

@freq_robot Now you can add certain users to whitelist to allow them write them message without limitations. See documentation https://tgdev.io/bot/freqrobot for commands to work with users white list.

@watchdog_clone_robot New filters: - user_premium — to restrict premium users to join a group - msg_premium — to remove messages written by premium users

I have released update of Telegram channels search engine. The search database contains about 2 billion channel publications, mostly by 2022 and 2023 years. There is a separate index for Russian publications which understands Russian morphology. The database contains only posts from public channels i.e. channels which have address like t.me/username. The database is updated hourly. If a Telegram channel posts daily, it will be monitored by my search engine every hour. There are three search modes: 1) Usual text search 2) Hashtag search 3) Username search. It search for explicit username mentions like @username or t.me/username To avoid solving captcha each time just log into tgdev.io with your Telegram account. The search engine is here https://tgdev.io/tme

I have updated @orgrobot — now it can kicks users who have not passed the test in a configured time. By default, kick time is zero i.e. bot does not kicks users. Kick time can be set in range from 0 to 180 minutes.

I have updated @wikirobot to support these things: * photo message * most of markup entities: inline links, bold/italic/etc

I have started fixing things in @wikirobot. I did some improvements. Now the lag between scheduled time and actual time of posting must be lower. Also I have implement logging system. In your group write "/wiki log" command and you'll get status of 10 recent actions performed by the bot in your group. That will help you to analyze if it is something wrong with a bot or if you did some wrong bot's configuration.

I have created @tgdev_offtopic group. You can use this group for talking any things which are not related to more restricted groups @grablab_osint and @tgdev_en. I will write rules for offtopic group a bit later. The general idea is same: do not offend other people, do not write super stupid things, do not do intense flooding. Also there are offtopic things for offtopic group 🤯 Do not ask in offtopic group how to pay for tgscanrobot.

I have added to @watchdog_robot and @watchdog_clone_robot the ability to manually ban and mute users. To ban a user, you need to respond in the chat to their message with the "+ban" command — the user will be kicked out of the chat and the bot will write to the chat about it. You can specify the command in this form "+ban asdf", then the reason "asdf" will be indicated in the bot's message about moderating the user. The reason can be multiple words, all text after the time period will be used as the reason e.g. "+ban go away evil". With the "+bandel" command, you can not only ban a user, but also delete their recent (up to 1 one day ago) messages. To put a user into read-only, you need to use the "+mute d7" command in response to the user's message, which means put the user into read-only for seven days. The read-only period is specified as a letter and a number, where the letter can be m — minute, h — hour, d — day, w — week. In this command, you can also specify a reason: "+mute d7 spam". In order to set read-only without a time limit, you need to use the word "forever" i.e. "+mute forever" or "+mute forever idiot", where "idiot" would be the reason. For these commands to work, the bot must have the right to ban users.

I have updated @orgrobot to support groups with more than 10k members. Please test it and write feedback. Thanks.

Hello! Yet another hobby project of mine. A search engine for telegram channel posts. To be able to search data you have to log into website using your Telegram account. Search engine link: https://tgdev.io/tme/ For questions and suggestions use these groups: @tgdev_en and @grablab_osint

I have created a new bot: @vk2017robot In 2017 year I have downloaded data of all vkontakte users (only public data accessable through "users.get" API method). Vkontakte is a major Russian social network. Using this bot you can see historical data of a vkontakte user's profile as it was in 2017 year. Bot is free.