Group Editor Bot

Small bot that manages editors for a group, and resends it when new people join.

The flagship instance is: groupedit@nine.testrun.org

It can also generate invitation QRs for your private Delta Chat groups. The bot is always online and can add people to groups in "real time" while if you use your own invitation QRs, others will not be able to join until you are online.

Install

Binary releases can be found at: https://github.com/deltachat-bot/group-editor-bot/releases

To install from source:

go install github.com/deltachat-bot/group-editor-bot@latest

Installing deltachat-rpc-server

This program depends on a standalone Delta Chat RPC server deltachat-rpc-server program that must be available in your PATH. For installation instructions check: https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-core-rust/tree/master/deltachat-rpc-server

Running the bot

Configure the bot:

group-editor-bot init bot@example.com PASSWORD

Start the bot:

group-editor-bot serve

Run group-editor-bot --help to see all available options.

Usage in Delta Chat

Once the bot is running:

1. Add the bot address to some group in Delta Chat.
2. Send /editor to the group.
3. The bot will post an editor to the group
4. When new people are added to the group, they will already see the editor.