Better Forward

中文README

Designed for better message forwarding in Telegram.

Forward users' messages to topics in the group. Each user corresponds to a topic.

Features

• Privacy: Admins' accounts are not exposed.
• Flexibility: Each user corresponds to an independent topic, and the experience is almost the same as private chat.
• Teamwork: Multiple admins can handle users' messages.
• Multi-language: Supports multiple languages, including English, Chinese and Japanese.
• Auto Response: Automatically replies to users' messages with predefined messages, and supports detection with regex.

Usage

1. Create a bot from @BotFather and get the token.
2. Create a group with topics, and add the bot as an admin.
3. Get the group ID. This step can be done by inviting @tg_get_userid_bot to the group. For privacy reasons, it is recommended to remove it after getting the group ID.
4. Deploy BetterForward to a server.

Any messages sent to the bot will be forwarded to the corresponding topic in the group.

More settings can be found by sending the /help command to the bot.

Deployment

The following are the available language options:

• English - en
• Chinese - zh_CN
• Japanese - ja_JP

We welcome contributions to add more languages.

Docker (Recommended)

docker run -d --name betterforward \
    -e TOKEN=<your_bot_token> \
    -e GROUP_ID=<your_group_id> \
    -e LANGUAGE=<language> \
    -v /path/to/data:/app/data \
    --restart unless-stopped \
    pplulee/betterforward:latest

Upgrade

If you deploy this project using Docker, you can use WatchTower to quickly update. Please adjust the container name yourself. Use the following command to update:

docker run --rm \
-v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
containrrr/watchtower -cR \
<Container Name>

Admin Commands

• /terminate [User ID]: Ends the conversation with a specified user. When this command is issued within a conversation thread, there is no need to include the User ID; the current conversation will be terminated automatically. The user will not receive any further prompts or notifications.
• /help: Displays the help menu, which includes a list of available commands and their instructions.
• /ban: Prevents the user from sending more messages. This command is only applicable within the specific conversation thread where it is executed.
• /unban [User ID]: Reinstates the ability for a user to send messages. If no User ID is specified, the command will apply to the user in the current conversation thread.

Community

• Telegram Channel @betterforward

Please use issues for bug reports and feature requests.