Link Expander - Telegram Bot for expanding Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube Shorts, Spotify, Reddit, Threads, Bluesky, Hacker News, Facebook, and Dribbble links.
Some Twitter links stopped expanding inside Telegram which made it extremely annoying when you wanted to send a banger tweet to your homies in the group chat. This bot replies with an alternative fxtwitter.com URL which has a working embed for multiple photos and even includes inline video.
- Twitter / X using fxtwitter.com and vxtwitter.com
- Instagram using eeinstagram.com, fxstagram.com, uuinstagram.com, vxinstagram.com and kkinstagram.com
- TikTok using tfxktok.com, kktiktok.com, tiktokez.com and tnktok.com
- Bluesky using fxbsky.app
- Reddit using rxddit.com
- Hacker News using a custom API
- Dribbble using dribbbletv.com
- Posts.cv using postscv.com
- Facebook using facebed.com
Spotify using a custom API(disabled for now)- Threads using threadsez.com
- YouTube Shorts using koutube.com
Sometimes specific embedding services (like ddinstagram or tfxktok) go down or stop working correctly. Now you can easily switch between different providers if the default one fails!
When expanding a link, if the embed doesn't load properly, click the "🖼 Embed not working?" button. This will cycle through a list of alternative reliable services for that platform (Instagram, TikTok, or Twitter) until you find one that works.
When you send a Spotify link, the bot will reply with a photo of the artwork and info about the track / album / playlist / artist / podcast / show. It will also send a sample audio clip in another message.
You can now expand Hacker News links. It will reply with the original YCombinator URL, the link shared in a HN post, and the title of the submission.
When you add this bot to your channel it will automatically edit any message that includes a supported platform and replace the link in that message with one of the working embeds for each platform. Your channel subscribers will finally be able to watch inline videos and photos without leaving Telegram.
Note
There is no message logging or personal tracking — your chats stay private.
The exact source code that’s published on GitHub is automatically deployed to Railway and logs will never include any user/chat/personal info or content. You can audit the code to see for yourself.
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- Find it on Telegram as
@TwitterLinkExpanderBotor click here: https://t.me/twitterlinkexpanderbot?start=start - Add it to your channel as admin with the
Edit messages of otherspermission. - Send a message that includes a tweet, TikTok, or Instagram URL.
- Find it on Telegram as
@TwitterLinkExpanderBotor click here: https://t.me/twitterlinkexpanderbot?start=start - Add it to your group chat.
- Send a message that includes a tweet, TikTok, or Instagram URL.
- Click "Yes" or "No" when the bot replies to your message.
- Configure automatically expanding links in your group chat by sending
/autoexpandand changing your settings.
🙅♂️ No, I will never do that. 🙅♂️
While it is technically possible through the Bot API, I simply do not have the time or desire to snoop on your shit. The only thing I will keep track of is counting anonymous events when buttons are clicked, bot commands are used, a tweet has multiple images (etc.) to monitor stats to see if people are finding this bot useful.
You can check the code and verify that none of the messages are being stored or logged in any way.
This bot wouldn't be possible without the following people and projects. Huge thanks to:
- @dylanpdx for creating BetterTwitFix / vxtwitter.com
- @Wikidepia for creating InstaFix / ddinstagram.com
- @dangeredwolf for creating FxEmbed / fxtwitter.com
- @allanf181 for creating tfxktok.com
- @fxbsky.app for creating fxbsky.app
- @MinnDevelopment for creating rxddit.com
- Embedez.com for their services: threadsez.com, tiktokez.com, instagramez.com
- @iGerman00 for creating koutube.com
- @rdfsx for hosting eeinstagram.com
- @gigirassy for hosting fxstagram.com
- @Knoppiix for hosting zzinstagram.com
- @Lainmode for creating vxinstagram.com
- facebed.com for hosting facebed.com