Kantek is a userbot written in Python using Telethon.

Kantek is mostly built to help with the Administration of chats and is the main source for SpamWat.ch. Because of that it checks every message your account receives for blacklisted items, this includes strings, domains, top level domains, files, images and telegram entities. This means that for every message your account receives Kantek might make multiple http requests an resolve multiple telegram entities. The latter might lead to large (6+ hours) Floodwaits from Telegram.

If you want to use Kantek without the administration part, simply remove the plugins/autobahn folder to disable these features.

Python 3.8+ is required to run the bot. ArangoDB 3.5+ or Postgres is used to store data.

• Copy the example config file to config.json

• Create a database and a user in postgres
• kantek uses migrant for migrations. Follow the installation instructions here or run cargo install migrant --features postgres.
• Copy the example.Migrant.toml to Migrant.toml and fill out the details.
• Run migrant setup
• Run migrant apply --all

After setting up the database:

• Put the Authentication data into the config file.
• Run python -m kantek

Get it from http://my.telegram.org/

Get it from http://my.telegram.org/

The database to use. Only postgres is supported currently.

The IP the Database runs on. For ArangoDB the http is automatically added

Default depends on the DB type.

Postgres: 5432

The bot token for the bot that logs into the log channel

The channel id for the log bot

The group where gban and fban commands are sent to

The prefix you want to use

A list of prefixes you want to use

Useful for local development. Disabled actually banning a user in groups and reporting messages when using gban.

Command to be run when executing .kill. For example systemctl stop kantek or pm2 stop kantek

Used in .kantek and .update