How to delete all messages from new users?
There are bots that immediately reset the ad when it enters.
Can I get the bot to quickly delete all messages from a user who didn't pass the captcha?

I was banning some spam bot account before (because i administrating multiple group, so i know which one) they responding the captcha

but everytime the join captcha bot banned the spammy bot account, it always add their permission back

which is counter-productive

It would be nice to "mute" (delete all from) the new member until the captcha is solved.

For this, just delete any message that's not a solution to the captcha, and if it's a solution, then proceed accordingly.

It would also be good to choose whether to mute or kick (or even ban) users who don't solve captcha in the given time.

Please, clarify the meaning of kick and ban so non-techie users can understand. Putting the definition in parentheses should be enough.

Example in Spanish:

• kickeado (echado)
• baneado (bloqueado)

Originally posted by @ignaciolep in #3 (comment)

follow the install page and changed the token as well. But when I do ./run it outputs Not running.. Does anyone know what I should do?

My pillow version is 6.2.0. Python is 2.7.12

I mistakenly banned a user and found no simple way to undo the operation or get a list of users blocked or removed from the group.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Telegram/comments/6z9p2c/comment/dmujzpp

I noticed new variance of spam message coming to my group

sample message and bot response

and bot fail to delete message

i want to contribute, but i dont know how to fix it, i have check your source code,

its around here https://github.com/J-Rios/TLG_JoinCaptchaBot/blob/master/sources/join_captcha_bot.py#L324

and i have check https://github.com/J-Rios/TLG_JoinCaptchaBot/blob/master/sources/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt too,

but still doesnt have idea how to solve it, because python isnt my primary programming language

Spammers have evolved, and now they forward messages from their own channels without passing the captcha.

Bot should block any message from the user until it resolves the captcha.

in language file,

"LANG_CHANGE": "Language changed to English.",

With this constant message structure, a bot tells us misleading result when we configure it with other lang.

expected result

Language changed to {target_lang}

current result

Language changed to English

The bot is deleting welcome messages too...

Possible for the bot to generate random equations with 3 buttons at the bottom showing possible options (one of them must be
the correct one)?

demo here

change multiple bot owner for a big group with many admins.

Hey,
im running into an issue with the bot and cant figure out why.
When a new user is coming to the group the user got the captcha from the bot. After he write in the right captcha the entry to the group is done. But here im getting the issue. When i then looking at the right for the new user the bot has restricted the rights so that the user cant share pics or something else. The admin must always switch the rights so the new users can share pics or other stuff. What am i missing?? Bot is running as admin and i just updated to the latest version of the JoinCaptchaBot. Is there some new config i do not know about or missing??

Maybe the docker image is using an older version of pillow.

The /help and /commands say that only images sent are automatically deleted by the bot, no muting or other restrictions are put on a new unverified user since the bot does the message deleting automatically.

1. Does the bot delete those images instantly, or is there a delay?

2. Can it be set to delete ALL non-text messages, including gifs, videos, and stickers, or is that already implemented and just not stated anywhere?

Thank you

I'm sure that the bot deleted "joined the group" message before when spammer wasn't able to solve the captcha.

In the latest version this message remaining in the channel.

Hallo, what am i missing??

sudo docker pull captcha-bot
Using default tag: latest
Error response from daemon: pull access denied for captcha-bot, repository does not exist or may require 'docker login': denied: requested access to the resource is denied

Telegram recently introduced the concept of silent messages. Nobody in a group wants to be bothered by captcha processes of new users. You could also ask the new user to send the catcha silent so users in the group are not getting annoyed by joining users.

Thank you this bot is really useful 👍

Related: #5

When someone forward any message before be kicked from the group, that message is not deleted too.

The provided Persian language support file "fa.json" has an invalid format or is incompatible to actual json parser library. Due this, it cannot be use and has been disabled.

Some others minors errors:

• There is some strange Latin characters, so it seems some translated texts parts are bad.
• Some commands names in the texts has been translated, they must be reverted to english, commands don't need to be translated (/start /help /commands...).

Hi there @J-Rios, we've started using your Bot within a couple Telegram groups and it seems to work fine.

We were wondering if it's possible to skip the captcha for users invited by current group members.

I haven't ever coded a Telegram bot, but I have experience with Python, so if you can provide some directions, I could try to help.

If you are more comfortable speaking spanish, you can send me a priv.

Thanks in advance and congratulations for your work!

The language I selected (Galician) has some errors and I would like to improve it, what is your translation platform?

When a user joins a group with "Show history for new members" disabled, the bot is sometimes too quick to send the captcha, such that it isn't even visible to the new user.

This is most probably a bug on Telegram's side, but it would be useful to add a delay (~2-5 seconds) between recieving the event from telegram and sending a captcha.

Thanks for the great bot!

The captcha message is correctly being deleted, but the "Welcome" message that is sent after the confirmation succeeds is not. Looking at the source (http://bit.ly/2YICmuf) it appears that there's a call to tlg_send_selfdestruct_msg() to do this, but it's commented out. This should be an option, hidden behind configuration.

If you add hcaptcha support your users can be paid. We are recaptcha compatible where it matters

I'd like to know if your bot supports more placeholders other than $user. That way I can customize the welcome message even more.

If there are more placeholders and tricks, I'd really be glad if that could be added to the help documentation.

Thanks.

I install your program in Ubuntu and run successfully
The problem was, whenever I join my group using my different telegram account.
There is no Captcha appear.
What missing in my steps
tq

STEPS:
open telegram
search for BotFather and open
/newboot YOURbot
bot name YOURbot
username YOURbot
open YOURbot
/captcha_mode ascii

open Ubuntu

apt-get install libtiff5-dev libjpeg8-dev zlib1g-dev libfreetype6-dev liblcms2-dev libwebp-dev tcl8.6-dev tk8.6-dev python-tk

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/J-Rios/TLG_JoinCaptchaBot

pip install -r TLG_JoinCaptchaBot/requirements.txt

cd TLG_JoinCaptchaBot/sources

vi constants.py

modify this and put your token
Change "TOKEN" : "XXXXXXXXXX:XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"

./run

./status

Running (PID - 18171).
open your telegram group and add YOURbot as member and promote it as admin

@MissRose_bot has the feature to connect remotely to the desired group to manage the bot's settings. Being linked to the group, you can send and get commands by calling them privately, once it's connected to the group you need to do the alterations and management.

I'm currently using @join_captcha_bot because Rose lacks more features as yours have. And will probably keep it this way for some time since it suits my needs.

You can connect to the group remotely with the /connect command.

Example:
/connect -1001235155926

Which -1001235155926 is the group !id.

Could that be possible?

Or you could integrate with Rose, by any chance... If that's even possible.

Thanks!

I think customizing the message CAPTHA_SOLVED message to something like a group welcome message could be beneficial to some groups.

Hello,

I'm trying to create a Docker for TLG_JoinCaptchaBot. I've followed all instructions on the README.md (with the change of changing libjpeg8 to libjpeg62-turbo, as libjpeg8 is not available on Debian). I've installed the requirements with pip3 (Debian's python3 version of pip). When I try to run the bot, I get:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "join_captcha_bot.py", line 34, in <module>
    from telegram import MessageEntity, ParseMode, InputMediaPhoto,  InlineKeyboardButton, \
ImportError: cannot import name 'MessageEntity' from 'telegram' (/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/telegram/__init__.py)

Running python3 by hand and attempting to import the library above gives me the same result, as expected.

The curious thing is that I don't see this module under the "telegram" library. Any ideas?

About:

• The Bot support multiples languages through JSON files.
• When a new Bot functionality is added to Bot code it could needs to create new texts messages and sometimes the contributor didn't add that texts in all languages.

Requesting:

• Take a look into languages files and compare them to English texts file to add/translate missing texts in each language.

Notes:

• English language file is the default language and should contains all the last texts needed from the project. So the english file can be used to compare, update and translate the other languages files according to it.
• This is a persistent issue and shouldn't be closed due any new functionality can bring new missing language text translations again. Let's just keep it to notify the world about it.

This bot is really works great.

As of now bot is directly kicking users. Can u add optional mute punishment?
I don't want to directly kick people because some people are new to telegram and they fail to understand how to solve captcha.
Directly Kicking them seems harsh punishment.

If user has a @username, use that in the message that says to do the captcha. In that way the new user gets a notification, knows she must do something. Now, a user can join a group just before lunch, then does not see this bot's message.

Hallo, is it possible to add a command so that the admin/admins will not become the CaptchaBot message??
Somthing like "do not send to ChatID xxxxxx
You can get your ChatID at @FalconGate_Bot
But i guess you know that ;)

Best
Tim

Hello,

i´m trying to run the docker instance with other "environment variable" but it will not work for me.

docker run -d --name captcha-bot --env CAPTCHABOT_TOKEN="xxxxxxxxxxxx:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" --env CAPTCHABOT_OWNER="xxxxxxxx" --env CAPTCHABOT_INIT_LANG="DE" --restart always captcha-bot

The container is running, but not with language=DE. It always starts with language=EN

Whats my problem??

Is it possible to add

https://github.com/J-Rios/TLG_JoinCaptchaBot/blob/c81215ed685e5d099406cea9355bef330c05b5fb/sources/constants.py#L181
"T_SECONDS_IN_A_DAY": 86400,

with custum days to --env / settings.py to run it when docker/py starts up?

Hi,
are those translatable?

If not, any chance, that they will be?

I noticed that the welcome message won't be set up as the same formatting as we format in the normal markdown form.

The break lines, underscores, bold, italic, etc, won't be inherited to the normal formatting.

Probably what you have in mind with the welcome message is something brief, but detailing more for lay people that barely understand how Telegram works would be a bit better.

I've set it up along with Rose to explain what should be done, after all there are many people that join Telegram to ask a few things and drop out right after some days or weeks.

Can that be done?

Expected behavior:

Current behavior:

Thanks.

Hello @J-Rios !

I've saw that you've included an option to change bot mode for private.
I've tried to include more than one group and it looks it doesnt worked!

Would be possible to modify to add group with nickname @groupName instead group id?

(sorry for bad english, is not my mother language)

on this print:
https://i.imgur.com/UOMK3Cz.png

we can see that but not showed the captcha, but the user tell to me that type the captcha appear and has been typed ok

every 10 users, 2 or 3 this thing occurs

Hello!

First of all, thanks for the bot. Terribly useful.

Second, an idea: Would it be too difficult to mute new users for a few minutes/hours? Frequently people don't bother reading the group rules (or even the captcha message!), and a bit of a "cool off" time when they join may be the incentive to behave.

I would like to host the bot for several groups that I manage and would like to have the bot only responding or can be added to a certain group only.

This StackOverflow post have hint to how to control the bot: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46015319/how-to-make-a-private-telegram-bot-accessible-only-by-its-owner

If you can help show where the bot determines the channel it joins, I can try to figure out how to limit the bot. Or someone else with better Python expertise can help as well

Thank you.

Setting CONST.INIT_LANG to an invalid value prevents the Bot from initializing properly, without any relevant error messages logged. The bot will run, but not respond to any commands.

This is a particularly easy hole to fall in, since the /language command expects the language to be specified in lowercase (E.g, "en") but for CONFIG.INIT_LANG, the language needs to be specified in upper case (E.g. "EN"). A simple case mismatch is enough to trigger the problem.

Hi...

A long time ago, I was using the bot version: Current Bot version: 1.10.4 (06/22/2020) and lately some Russian bots have started to enter, in which it is not possible to mark them to ban. When understanding, Telegram allows you to create accounts without a user profile, so you can't ban them via 'inline'. The problem with this, is that the Russians in particular use crazy characters, and that you can't ban them. In this version, when they enter, at least it shows the "user account", as an example:

2021-02-27 20:53:55: [-00_removed_00] New join detected: Денис Будахян (1674530619)
2021-02-27 20:53:55: [-00_removed_00] Sending captcha message to Денис Будахян: E2DD ...
2021-02-27 20:53:56: [-00_removed_00] Captcha send process complete.

2021-02-27 20:54:56: [-00_removed_00] Captcha reply timed out for user Денис Будахян.
2021-02-27 20:54:56: [-00_removed_00] Captcha not solved, kicking Денис Будахян (1674530619) ...
2021-02-27 20:54:57: [-00_removed_00] Increased join_retries to 5
2021-02-27 20:54:58: [-00_removed_00] Removing messages from user Денис Будахян ...
2021-02-27 20:54:58: [-00_removed_00] Kick / Ban process complete

So, to ban this bot, I need to type: tg: // user? Id = 1674530619

I thought, that this problem had been solved in the Current Bot version: 1.18.0 (02/27/2021)

However, the result was a bot crash, as follows:

2021-02-27 21:49:39: Bot started.
2021-02-27 21:49:39: File /TLG_JoinCaptchaBot/sources/data/allowedusers.txt not found, creating it ...
2021-02-27 21:49:39: File /TLG_JoinCaptchaBot/sources/data/bannedgroups.txt not found, creating it ...
2021-02-27 21:49:39: Resources initialized.
2021-02-27 21:49:39: Setup Bot for Polling.
2021-02-27 21:49:40: Bot setup completed. Bot is now running.
2021-02-27 21:55:09: [-00_removed_00] Scheduled deletion time for message: 27663
2021-02-27 21:55:09: [-00_removed_00] Message to delete not found
2021-02-27 21:55:10: [-00_removed_00] Scheduled deletion time for message: 27664

2021-02-27 18: 57: 47,533 - telegram.utils.promise - ERROR - An uncaught error was raised while running the promise
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/telegram/utils/promise.py", line 56, in run
self._result = self.pooled_function (* self.args, ** self.kwargs)
File "join_captcha_bot.py", line 536, in new_member_join
printts ("[{}] New join detected: {} ({})". format (chat_id, join_user_name, join_user_id))
File "/TLG_JoinCaptchaBot/sources/commons.py", line 67, in printts
print ("{}: {}". format (actual_date, to_print))
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 57-61: ordinal not in range (128)
2021-02-27 21:58:06: [-00_removed_00] Scheduled deletion time for message: 27667
2021-02-27 21:58:06: [-00_removed_00] Message to delete not found
2021-02-27 21:58:07: [-00_removed_00] Scheduled deletion time for message: 27668
2021-02-27 21:58:07: [-00_removed_00] Message to delete not found

2021-02-27 18: 58: 09,963 - telegram.utils.promise - ERROR - An uncaught error was raised while running the promise
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/telegram/utils/promise.py", line 56, in run
self._result = self.pooled_function (* self.args, ** self.kwargs)
File "join_captcha_bot.py", line 536, in new_member_join
printts ("[{}] New join detected: {} ({})". format (chat_id, join_user_name, join_user_id))
File "/TLG_JoinCaptchaBot/sources/commons.py", line 67, in printts
print ("{}: {}". format (actual_date, to_print))
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\ u200e' in position 57: ordinal not in range (128)
2021-02-27 21:58:10: [-00_removed_00] Scheduled deletion time for message: 27669
2021-02-27 21:58:10: [-00_removed_00] Message to delete not found
2021-02-27 21:58:10: [-00_removed_00] Scheduled deletion time for message: 27670
2021-02-27 21:58:10: [-00_removed_00] Message to delete not found
^ C

The first error occurred when this user entered (without quotes): "Илья токсичая жител_ка постмодерниз_ма!"

The second error, with this user (without quotes): "Elena ♥ ️97"

How can I fix this problem?

Hi,
new joined user spam-msgs without solved a captcha didnt delete after the first msg.
any ideas?
thx

Can it be possible to add a command / funktion in the constants.py that the bot just answer commands from the admins in the group?
If 200 user testing the command /help it is very piiiiiiiiip ;)

Best

Would be nice to be able to set a shorter time than 5 minutes, or even not to show the message that user has been removed from the chat

user could still send something in group before verifying. How to mute them before they have complete the captcha task?