Programming

For some of the telegram groups I’m in, I’ve been detecting users that after some period of time, just publish spam messages of any topic. There are many bots for controlling when a user joins, by showing a CAPTCHA that user must resolve (either clicking a button, answering a mathematical operation, inputting a CAPTCHA image text, etc). Some time ago, a colleague was using Machine Learning and I wanted to have a look at it and it would make a good feature to implement. ...

Hi, Telegram.org recently announced the support for writing bots for their platform, by providing details at https://core.telegram.org/bots. I was missing for a long time the ability to get a count on karma like we’ve on IRC servers, so I started with it. My first try is published at github repo in https://github.com/iranzo/stampython. At the moment it just uses the polling interface to check the new messages received on the channels the bot is in, and later processes them and send the relevant replies via messages. ...