Telegram-Forwarder is a Telegram bot used to redirect messages from various chats, channels, and groups to your own ones. It's main goal is to be simple in installation and usage.
Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/jz-software/telegram-forwarder.gitnpm installpip install -r requirements.txtCreate an .env file with the following content
TOKEN= # Can be obtained from @BotFather on Telegram
DATABASE_URL= # A PostgreSQL database URL, you can install it locally
API_ID= # Can be obtained here: https://my.telegram.org/
API_HASH= # Can be obtained here: https://my.telegram.org/API_ID and API_HASH can be found here. TOKEN here.
First of all you need to authenticate yourself, you can do this by writing /auth to the bot.
You can add new redirects with the /add command.
Just follow the instructions and it will create a redirect for you. It uses your real chats and thus makes creation much easier.
If you're more experienced you can create redirects directly with one command.
/add title origin destinationtitle: A title for the redirect
origin: The id of the chat to forward from
destination: The id of the chat to forward to
Q: In what type of chats does it work?
A: It works in all type of chats, it can be a channel, group or even a private chat.
Q: Does it give any reference to the original author of the message?
A: No, it's sent as if it was written by you.
Q: Do I have to authenticate every time it launches?
A: No, it keeps a session in the database so you don't need to authenticate every time.