Projects FixupXer Telegram Bot
03 · Link cleaner for Telegram groups
FixupXer Telegram Bot
Watches a chat for links, strips their tracking and rewrites the ones Telegram will not preview properly, so videos and images embed instead of arriving as bare URLs. It ports the Android app's rule set to Python.
Telegram MIT
Run the public bot, or host your own from source.
What it does
Features
- Cleans and converts X/Twitter, Instagram, TikTok and Facebook links so they embed in Telegram
- Per-platform tracking removal across roughly 20 platforms, plus a generic UTM and click-id pass
- Health-checks each Instagram and TikTok proxy before replying and falls back through the list
- Re-hosts links that are sitting on a proxy which has since died
- Stays silent when a link is already clean — no reply, no noise
- Keeps the original text and credits the poster; /delete lets the author or an admin remove the reply
- Admin-only usage statistics and proxy health via /stats and /setproxy
Worth knowing
Deliberate limits
- Only plain text messages — captions, polls and edited messages are ignored on purpose
- At most three links per message
- YouTube is cleaned but not rewritten; it already embeds correctly
Licence and privacy
FixupXer Telegram Bot is released under MIT. The full text ships with the source.
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