Proper way to ban users writing via channels

eugenweissbart commented

2022-07-20 15:10:58 +00:00

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As of now, when you try to ban a user who is writing to a group using his channel, instead of blocking the channel, an internal TG entity called Channel_Bot is banned.
A proper way to block the channel would be to issue a banChatSenderChat command. To distinguish that it is a channel writing to the chat, you might want to check that from has it's is_bot set to true (may also want to check if username is Channel_Bot but I guess it's not required) and a message has also sender_chat key with it's type set to "channel". The id of sender_chat is what to be the second argument to a command, first one being the chat's id.

As of now, when you try to ban a user who is writing to a group using his channel, instead of blocking the channel, an internal TG entity called `Channel_Bot` is banned. A proper way to block the channel would be to issue a [banChatSenderChat](https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#banchatsenderchat) command. To distinguish that it is a channel writing to the chat, you might want to check that `from` has it's `is_bot` set to true (may also want to check if username is `Channel_Bot` but I guess it's not required) and a message has also `sender_chat` key with it's `type` set to "channel". The `id` of `sender_chat` is what to be the second argument to a command, first one being the chat's id.

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backmeupplz commented

2022-07-21 13:06:56 +00:00

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This is a valid concern, I'll be happy to review and merge a PR that fixes this :)

backmeupplz commented

2026-10-22 17:31:09 +00:00

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Thank you for taking the time to report this, and sorry it sat without an answer for so long. I'm cleaning up old issues and closing this one because it has been inactive for a long time. If it still affects you, please open a new issue with the current details and I'll take a look.

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