Telegram’s forward button is all or nothing: the message arrives exactly as it was written, links and all. The post editor is a planned TelegramBuddy service that will let you edit Telegram messages when forwarding them between chats you manage — replacing text and links, adding a signature, and watermarking images and videos along the way. This is coming to TelegramBuddy and is not built yet — join the waitlist below for early access.
This page describes how the service is intended to work. Details may change before launch, and we are not giving a release date.
What the post editor will do
The post editor will be the “optional processing” step in a TelegramBuddy forwarding rule: source, then edits, then destination. When it launches, you’ll be able to:
- Replace text. Swap a word, a phrase or a pattern for something else in every post.
- Replace links. Point links at a different address — for example your own tracking link, or the new home of a site that moved.
- Remove parts of a post. Strip a recurring footer, hashtags or a line you never want repeated.
- Add a signature. Append a fixed line, such as your channel name and invite link, to every post.
- Watermark media. Place a small logo or text on images and videos before they are posted.
Edits run in the order you set them, so you can remove an old footer first and add your own signature after.
Who it is for
- Channel owners running more than one channel who post the same content to each and want each copy to carry the right links and signature.
- Teams mirroring an internal channel into a public one, where some lines or links should never leave the internal version.
- Creators who publish their own photos and videos and want them watermarked wherever they are reposted.
- Anyone migrating links after a domain change, who wants every future repost to point at the new address.
How it will work
- Set up a forwarding rule. Choose a source chat and a destination chat you control. The auto forward service is planned to provide these rules.
- Add edits. Pick from text replacement, link replacement, removal, signature and watermark. Each edit gets its own small settings panel.
- Preview. Run the edits against a recent post from the source and see what would be sent before anything goes live.
- Combine with filters if you need them. A keyword filter can decide which posts go through; the editor decides what they look like when they arrive.
- Turn the rule on. New posts will be copied, edited and delivered from your own Telegram account.
Details that matter
Copy, not forward. An edited post cannot keep Telegram’s “Forwarded from” header, because it is no longer the original message. The editor will send a new message with the edited content. Use this only for chats you own or have the rights to — which is also exactly when losing that header is appropriate.
Formatting survives. Bold, italics, links and other Telegram formatting are meant to carry through edits rather than being flattened to plain text.
Watermarks cost time. Adding a watermark to a video means processing the file before it is sent, so watermarked video posts will take longer to arrive than plain text. We will say more about how this behaves once it is built rather than guess at numbers now.
Protected content stays protected. If a source chat has “Restrict saving content” switched on, the owner does not want its posts to leave. The editor will not work around that, and it is not a tool for rebranding someone else’s material. If you want to republish content from a channel you do not own, ask the owner first.
Your account, not a bot. Rules are designed to run from your own Telegram account, so they only see chats you can see. Where the rules run is not final yet.
How it compares to the usual options
| Manual copy and paste | Forwarding bots | TelegramBuddy post editor (planned) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Text and link replacement | By hand, every time | Often available | Planned |
| Signature on every post | By hand | Often available | Planned |
| Image and video watermark | Separate editing app | Sometimes | Planned |
| Preview before going live | Yes | Varies | Planned |
| Runs from your own account | Yes | Usually the bot’s account | Yes |
Doing it by hand gives you full control but does not scale past a few posts a day. Bots automate it but usually need admin rights in your chats and process your posts on someone else’s server. The post editor aims to keep the automation while keeping the work tied to your own account.
What works today
The post editor is not available yet. The TelegramBuddy desktop app already handles the other direction — getting content out of Telegram. You can export a chat to HTML or JSON, or save the text of selected messages to a file in chat order. If you archive your own channel’s media, the guide to downloading all videos from a Telegram channel shows how bulk downloads work now.
Get early access
If you spend time fixing links and adding signatures by hand, join the waitlist below. We will let you know when the post editor is ready to try.