A telegram bot, which can forward messages from channel, group or chat to another channel, group or chat automatically.

To configure this bot you have to use the file template at sample.config.toml. Rename it to config.toml and fill the values as described below. If you want to pass the values as environment variables, then pass the content of the config.toml file as environment variable CONFIG.

• api_id - Your Telegram API ID.
• api_hash - Your Telegram API Hash.
• session_string - (Optional if bot_token is provided) Session string of your Telegram account. You can get it by running get_session.py file.
• bot_token - (Optional if session_string is provided) Bot token of your Telegram bot. You can get it by creating a bot using BotFather.
• sudo_users - (Optional) List of user ids of users who can use the bot. You can get your user id by sending /id command to Rose.

[pyrogram]
api_id = 12345                                                      # required
api_hash = "0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef"                       # required
bot_token = "123456789:ABCdefGhIJKlmNoPQRsTUVwxyZ"                  # either bot_token or session_string is required
session_string = "1BVn1-ABCD1234efgh5678IJKLmnoPQRsTUVwxyZxxxxxxxx" # either bot_token or session_string is required
sudo_users = [123456789, 123456789]                                 # optional

• from - Chat id of the chat from which messages will be forwarded. You can get it by sending /id command to Rose.
• to - Chat id of the chat to which messages will be forwarded. You can get it by sending /id command to Rose.
• replace - (Optional) A dictionary of strings to replace in the message. The key is the string to be replaced and the value is the string to replace with. This is optional.

You can add multiple chats by using the following format.

[[chats]]
from = -100123456789        # required
to = 123456789              # required
replace = { "old" = "new" } # optional

[[chats]]
from = [123456789, -100123456789]               # required
to = 123456789                                  # required
replace = { "only_apply_to_this_chat" = "new" } # optional

[[chats]]
from = -100123456789            # required
to = [123456789, -100123456789] # required

Note: The chats should be in the format of int or list of int. If you want to use usernames, then you have to use the chat_id of the chat. You can get it by sending /id command to Rose.

• Supported identifier for a chat should be the chat id.
• Use /forward command to forward older messages. For message older than 2 days you have to login as a user and set the session_string variable in pyrogram section. Command usage - /forward <Chat ID/Username/Message Link> <Limit, No. of Messages to forward> <ID of the last message of from chat to avoid repetition>

git clone <repo-url> telegram-message-forwarder-bot
cd telegram-message-forwarder-bot

Install the required Python Modules in your machine.

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

With python3.10 or later.

python3 -m bot

Build the image.

docker build -t telegram-message-forwarder-bot .

Run the container.

docker run -d --name telegram-message-forwarder-bot telegram-message-forwarder-bot

• Fork the repository.
• Create a new branch.
• Make your changes.
• Commit and push the changes to your fork.
• Create a pull request.

• Ask in the Telegram Group or open an issue.

• Copyright © 2021 — Adnan Ahmad
• Licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License Version 3 ‐ 29 June 2007