Feature to remove links and usernames from messages

[rijeshkumar]

Please add a plugin for automatically detecting and removing any kind of links from messages

[aahnik]

that's a good idea. but there are other features on the priority list. (I will touch this after other important things are done)

If you know python and a little bit of telethon library, you may try doing this

read more about plugins here :

• https://github.com/aahnik/tgcf/wiki/Plugins
• https://github.com/aahnik/tgcf/wiki/How-to-write-a-plugin-for-tgcf-%3F

[aahnik]

You can do this in many ways.

using regex

For this, you need to learn regex. Or use google search to find what you want.

1. Use regex to match a pattern and blacklist it. (read filtering)
2. Use regex to replace patterns like URLs or usernames with some other text (may be blank text, that means removed)
   (regex pattern can find URLs which start with http or https reliably. But in telegram just writing something.com is also a link. Writing a regex that will match that is difficult. It may match sentence endings with fullstop, and new line starting without a space.) read text replacement

format

You can change the text format to "code". Thus all links will be unclickable. read formatting

[rijeshkumar]

Thanks for regex support. I created a regex pattern to find URLs starting with https:// or http://. Sharing it for those who need it.
(https|http)(://)\\S+
Above regex can find every lines starting with https:// or http// and select that line till a space come.

(Note: double back slash before S needed only if u use yaml. In other cases single back slash is enough

[aahnik]

(Note: double back slash before S needed only if u use yaml. In other cases single back slash is enough

Yup! Inside yaml, you need to escape the \, otherwise, yaml bura man jayga.

[aahnik]

To convert all @username to username just do

  replace:
    text:
      "\\s+(@(\\w+))\\s*": " \\2 "
    regex: true

(exception: this pattern will not apply to the first word of message if that starts with @)

[cleanerspam]

Can anyone provide a regex to remove everyhting from caption except those lines that are ending with .mkv or .mp4