Status Cleaner Bot for Telegram

This bot removes status updates from Telegram groups and channels.

Status updates include messages like Foo joined the group [by invite link], Foo added Bar, Foo kicked Bar, Foo changes the group name to «Bar» and Foo pinned "<message>" to name a few.

If you don't want to set up your own bot, feel free to add @StatusCleanerBot to your group or channel, promote it to admin and remove all rights except for Can delete messages.

Installation

1. Clone this repository: git clone https://github.com/tobiaswicker/StatusCleaner.git
2. Download Python 3.x if you haven't already
3. Install Python-Telegram-Bot by running pip install python-telegram-bot from a terminal.
4. Create a bot with @BotFather.
5. Create a username for yourself in the settings of your Telegram account, if you haven't already done so.
6. Rename config-bot.json.example to config-bot.json, edit it, paste in the BOT_TOKEN as well as YOUR_TELEGRAM_USERNAME. Remember that this should be your username, not your bots username.
7. Run the bot from a terminal: python statuscleanerbot.py

Usage

Add the bot to your group or channel and promote it to admin. The only admin permission required is Can delete messages.