Requirements

To use BotBasher to protect your group or channel, the following requirements must be met:

• The group or channel must be private. Public groups and channels are not supported.

• For groups, the group must be configured to not allow inviting members directly.

  The Add Members permission must be toggled off for the group itself and all the chat members (if granular participant permissions are used).

• BotBasher has to have admin access in the group/channel with the following permissions:

  • Ban users

  • Invite users via link

• Only the invite links with Request admin approval flag enabled must be used to join the group/channel. Note:

  • The invite links provided by the bot's Get invite link button satisfy that criteria, but you can use any admin's invite link as long as it has Request admin approval flag turned on.

  • Primary invite links - the ones that are created for each admin by default - can't be edited, and thus you can't turn the Request admin approval flag in them and use them; they also can't be permanently removed, as the Telegram will recreate them automatically on the backend - so our recommendation is to leave them be and not use them.