Terminology

This page lists all the terms used in this documentation and in the bot. Refer to this page whenever you encounter unfamiliar terms.

Chat

A chat in Telegram can be a user, bot, group, or channel—essentially any place where you can send or receive messages.

Example:

When you send /start to @Auto Forwarder Bot, you start a chat with that bot.

Source Chat

A source chat is any chat from where you want to copy messages. This is usually a chat where you are not an admin.

Incoming chat is also used in place of source chat.

Example:

Suppose you want to copy messages from Channel A to Channel B. All messages sent to Channel A will be forwarded to Channel B by the bot.

Here, Channel A is the source chat.

Destination Chat

A destination chat is any chat where you want to copy messages. This is a chat where you are an admin.

Outgoing chat and target chat are also used in place of destination chat.

Example:

Suppose you want to copy messages from Channel A to Channel B. All messages sent to Channel A will be forwarded to Channel B by the bot.

Here, Channel B is the destination chat.

Note: You MUST have message-sending privileges in the destination chat. You should be an admin with permission to send messages if the destination chat is a channel.

Text Transformation

The term filter refers to the complete system of blacklist, whitelist, and text replacement.

Filter may sometimes be used as a shorthand for text replacement.

Text Replacement

Text replacement is the process of replacing certain parts of a message with different text.

Example:

If the source chat receives the following message: