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With these settings you can change the look of media captions, author names and set the length of messages.

Captions

Where is it
Menu → Forwarding settings → Choose source and destination → Caption

You can choose the way you want to receive / forward a media (image, video etc) and its caption.

⏵Commands
/setting caption + one of the following options:

separate - an image and its caption will come as two separate messages
Ex. /setting caption separate

caption_name - image&caption will come as 1 message with the channel's name & link to the original channel (please note that the caption's body will be truncated in case of exceeded length).
Ex. /setting caption caption_name

text_only - no media will be sent, only its caption.
Ex. /setting caption text_only

You can adjust this setting in the menu, but also you can use the commands. If you are using the commands, to apply this setting to one channel only, replace the command /setting with /settingchannel source_channel_reference (read more).

Author

Where is it
Menu → Forwarding settings → Choose source and destination → Author

This setting applies only to messages already containing author’s name. You can choose how the name of a messages’ author will be displayed.

If you want to receive only messages from a certain user, then enable this setting and set up a filter for the user’s name with a command /filter.

Please notice that the bot can’t magically find the information about the author if it’s not present in the message. So if you don’t see this information in the message in your Telegram client, then this setting will not have any effect.

⏵Commands
/setting author + one of the following options:

none - no name
Ex. /setting author none

name - add name only
Ex. /setting author name

username - add @username only
Ex. /setting author username

full - add name and @username
Ex. /setting author full

You can adjust this setting in the menu, but also you can use the commands. If you are using the commands, to apply this setting to one channel only, replace the command /setting with /settingchannel source_channel_reference (read more).

Shorten long messages

Where is it
Menu → Forwarding settings → Choose source and destination → Brief

Long messages will be shortened to a certain length. Recommended values are between 150 (twitter-like posts) and 1000 (several paragraphs). To disable this feature set this value to 0.

⏵Commands
/setting brief + number of symbols

0 - disabled
Ex. /setting brief 0

[number] of characters to show
Ex. /setting brief 140
Ex. /setting brief 1000

You can adjust this setting in the menu, but also you can use the commands. If you are using the commands, to apply this setting to one channel only, replace the command /setting with /settingchannel source_channel_reference (read more).

Stories

Where is it
Menu → Forwarding settings → Choose source and destination → Stories

You can choose the way you want to receive Stories.

Currently, Stories are supported on Direct Connections only.

⏵Commands
/setting story + one of the following options:

message - stories will come as messages
Ex. /setting story message

ignore - stories will be ignored
Ex. /setting story text_only

You can adjust this setting in the menu, but also you can use the commands. If you are using the commands, to apply this setting to one channel only, replace the command /setting with /settingchannel source_channel_reference (read more).