[Request] Only bridge certain senders

[hmlendea]

Hi,

Would you consider adding a feature that will make it so that the bridge will only forward messages coming from certain users?

There could be a (whitelist) config for a comma-separated list of Telegram users, and another for Discord users, and only their messages will be relayed, the other messages coming from other users being ignored.

Likewise, it might be nice to also have the opposite (a blacklist): configs with lists of users whose messages are not relayed, while everyone else's will be.

[trgwii]

We would certainly accept a Pull Request.

[hmlendea]

Good to know.

I'm going to look into this (when I will have some free time). But, I'm not really knowledgeable in regards to JS, so I can't promise anything.

[forcegk]

I'd totally support this feature. I can try making a PR whenever I have time. I'm not fluent in JS tho, but cmon it can not be that difficult (famous last words).

Maybe create an array of strings on the configuration files with the user IDs allowed to cross post, and check them at runtime comes to mind.

EDIT: I see that this is already implemented and in checking progress. Hope it gets merged into stable soon!

[hmlendea]

@forcegk I've already gave that a shot, and it seemed to have worked, but I never found the time/willingness to finish it up and make it proper enough to PR-able. If you want you can take a look and maybe finish it.

I have a few instances running with that code on RPI and they do get the job done.