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# Forwarder Bot
## Features
1. **General Forwarding**: Easily redirect messages to multiple groups or channels using specified rules.
2. **Anonymous Forwarding**: Hide the source group/channel of the message along with the sender.
## Usage
First things first, you can add the forwarder bot from the home page after your login. For more info on how to add a bot and its initial setup, have a look [here](https://docs.quickbotify.com/fundamentals/getting-set-up).
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Please note that the forwarder bot only works when your telegram bot is added to both the source group/channel and target group/channel(s) as an admin.
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### General Forwarding
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First piece of information that you need to setup the forwarder bot is the group/channel id of both the source and target. Our telegram bot, **@quickbotifybot** can help you with that.
* Add **@quickbotifybot** to both source and target group/channel(s) as an admin. To do that, open your group/channel in Telegram, click on 3 dots icon at the top.
* Click on Manage Channel/Manage Group and then go to Administrators. Click on Add Administrator.
* Search for **quickbotifybot,** click on it and click OK if telegram shows any prompt asking to add the bot as an admin. Make sure you select the bot with the correct username.
* Once the bot is added, send **/getgroupid** in the chat and **quickbotifybot** will provide you the group/channel id. You can do this for both source and all the targets. Once you have them all, proceed to next step.
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Now that you have the IDs of both source and target, it is time to configure them on Quickbotify. Go to settings of your forwarder bot on Quickbotify. Scroll to **Advanced Configuration** section on the settings page and click on **Add**.
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It is time to fill in the values now. You will see 5 fields here of which 2 are mandatory.
* **From Group** - Group/Channel id of the source needs to be filled in here. It can only be a single value.
* **To Group** - Group/Channel id of the target needs to be filled in here. It can contain more than one value as well separated by comma(,).
* **Text Match Type (Optional)** - This field works together with the **Text Pattern** field. Clicking on this field opens up a dropdown window which contains 5 conditions i.e., *Starts With, Contains, Ends With, Equals, Does Not Contain.* You need to select a condition here based on your requirement. For e.g., If you want to forward all the messages that contains the word '*ticker',* you will select *contains* here in this field and in the **Text Pattern** field, you will enter *ticker*.
* **Text Pattern (Optional) -** As mentioned above, **Text Match Type** and **Text Pattern** field works together. Have a look at the explanation of **Text Match Type** field to get more info on this.
* **Sent By (Optional)** - If you want to restrict the forwarding to forward the messages only sent by a particular user, you can add the userid of that user in this field. To get your userid, you can send **/getuserid** command to **@quickbotifybot** privately. You can also add more than one user ids here separated by comma.
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Once you are done filling all the fields, click on **Submit**. That is it. You have successfully configured your forwarding bot. You can obviously add more configurations in this bot by following the same approach.
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### Anonymous Forwarding
If you have used general forwarding, you know that when a message is forwarded it clearly mentions the actual source of the message.
If you want to avoid this, you can turn on the toggle for **Anonymous Forwarding** option here in the settings of your Quickbotify forwarder bot and click on **Save**.