User guide

UTCA is a Telegram bot for automating publications in channels of any topic.

What it can do

• 🔎 Real research. Pulls fresh material from RSS feeds + live Google search via Gemini. Downloads original articles and retells them in your style, with no hallucinations.
• 🎯 Your style. Set the Tone of Voice (formality, humor, sarcasm), keywords, forbidden phrases — the bot writes exactly like that.
• 📚 Any niche in a minute. Describe your channel in one sentence — Gemini generates the profile: topic, audience, tone, rubrics.
• 📑 Rubrics and balance. News / Longread / Tools / Humor / Tips. The bot won’t post three humor pieces in a row — it keeps the proportions.
• 📋 Content plan in Google Doc/Sheets. The bot picks the next topic on its own and marks published ones with ✅ right in your sheet.
• 🎨 Branded images. Upload references and a logo — AI generates in your style via Nano Banana / Imagen 4 / FLUX.
• 🤖 3 automation modes. Manual approve / Full auto / Off.
• 🌐 Multiple channels in one bot, each with its own profile and schedule.
• 🛡 Duplicate protection. Won’t post the same article twice — keeps 14 days of history + semantic dedup.
• 🔑 Your own API keys — Gemini (free), OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek. Stored encrypted (AES-128 + HMAC).

Who it’s for

• Marketers and SMMs — automate the content plan, post in the brand’s voice
• Businesses — the channel runs 24/7 without an in-house editor
• Enthusiasts — build a channel on any topic and forget about manual posting

From zero to the first post — three minutes.

1. 01 Open the bot: @AutoPosting_REPRESIDIUM_bot
2. 02 Tap /start. You get 7 days free.
3. 03 To the left of the input → 🟦 menu-button "Settings" → the Mini App opens.
4. 04 🔑 API keys → add your Gemini key (free): go to aistudio.google.com/apikey → Create API Key → copy → paste it into the "Gemini" field → 🔎 Check → 💾 Save.
5. 05 ➕ New channel → describe the channel in one sentence. Gemini will generate the profile automatically.
6. 06 🌐 Telegram channel → enter @your_channel → add the bot as a channel admin with the "Post messages" right. More on this in the next section.
7. 07 🚀 Publish a post now → the bot sends you a shortlist → pick a material → the post goes live.

Done. Next — set up the schedule, and it runs on its own.

🎁 Trial — 7 days free

• With your own Gemini API key — no limits, just like the paid plan.
• On the shared key (without your own) — 9 generations and 3 publications per day.

💎 DIY — $4.9/mo ($49/yr)

• Your own API keys (Gemini / OpenAI / Anthropic / DeepSeek)
• Pay us the subscription + pay the AI provider directly (~$0–5/mo)
• No platform limits — generate as much as you want
• Gemini’s free plan also works
• Who it’s for: tech-savvy users already working with AI

🛡 Managed — $9.9/mo

• On our API keys — no registrations needed
• Limit: 150 generations + 60 publications per day per channel
• Who it’s for: "I don’t want to figure things out — just turn it on and run"

⚠️ Price is per channel. Every purchase adds +1 channel to your limit. Want 3 channels — buy 3 slots.

How to pay

• Telegram Stars (recommended) — natively via Telegram, in the Mini App tap "💳 Plan & payment".
• Card (RU/UA/EU) / USDT / TON — directly through @zvon_off.

ℹ️ Telegram Stars don’t work on RU and BY accounts and some other countries — a Telegram restriction. Use the second option.

All channel management — through a convenient interface in Telegram, no commands. Open it via the 🟦 menu-button to the left of the input in the chat with the bot.

Main screen

• Channels — your channel list. Tap → editor.
• 🔑 API keys — manage connected providers.
• 💳 Plan & payment — current plan, usage, purchase buttons.
• 🤝 Invite friends — referral link and stats.
• ➕ New channel — create a channel, Gemini generates the profile from your description.

Content strategy

📌 Topic and keywords

• Channel topic — the main niche
• Subtopics — related directions
• Boost keys — words that raise material relevance
• Exclude (stopwords) — material with these words is ignored
• Audience — description, pains, interests

🎨 Tone of Voice (ToV)

Sliders for formality / humor / sarcasm (0..1), emoji density, post length, narration person, forbidden phrases, reference style examples.

🧠 Editor prompt

A text field with global AI instructions. Applied to every generation on top of ToV.

Example: "Write concretely, no fluff. Every statement must rest on a fact from the source. Avoid clichés like ‘rapidly evolving’."

📑 Rubrics

Default set: news (50%) · longread (20%) · tools (15%) · humor (10%) · tips (5%).

• Share — what part of posts should be of this rubric
• Max in a row — no more than N in a row (balancer switches)
• Prompt hint — how exactly to write in this rubric
• Ignore content plan — for this rubric the bot goes to research, not the plan
• RSS over Google — if RSS has enough fresh material, Gemini isn’t called

Material sources

🔎 Web search (Gemini)

Toggle for web search. You can set custom search queries — one per line. Supports placeholders {topic} and {today}.

📰 RSS sources

A list of feed URLs. + Add RSS / × on each to delete.

Publishing & schedule

🌐 Telegram channel

• @username of your channel (or numeric ID for private ones)
• Channel language (for translating headlines)
• Time zone (for scheduling)

⚠️ Don’t forget: add the bot as a channel administrator with the "Post Messages" right. See the section "The bot has to be a channel admin".

🤖 Automation & schedule

• ⏸ PAUSE — schedule off, manual posts only
• ✋ APPROVE — the bot sends a shortlist to your DMs, you pick and approve
• 🤖 AUTO — the bot publishes on its own without approval
• Frequency: 1/wk · 3/wk · 1/day · 2/day · 3/day · 5/day
• Auto image — generate an AI image for every post
• Default source — add "Source: domain.com" to the post
• Default hashtags — add hashtags to the post

Visual style

• Style description — text (e.g. "minimalism, dark background, neon green")
• Style references — 2–5 brand photos, AI takes palette and composition into account
• Logo / brand assets — AI weaves them into composition

Supports JPEG / PNG / GIF / WEBP, up to 8 MB. × on a preview — delete a file.

Content plan (Google Doc / Sheets)

Connect a Google Doc or Google Sheets — the bot pulls topics from there and marks them as published.

Google Doc

• Each topic — its own line with no indent
• Optional ready post text — indented lines under the topic

Google Sheets

• Column A — topic
• Column B — optional ready text
• Column C — ✅ after publication (Apps Script webhook needed)
• Column D — date + message ID

Setup

1. 01 Open the doc → Share → "Anyone with the link → Viewer"
2. 02 In the Mini App → 📋 Content plan → paste the URL
3. 03 (Optional) for auto-✅ marking: open Apps Script, paste the code the bot gives you via /gplan webhook, deploy as a Web App, return the URL to the bot

How it works

1. 01 Open the Mini App → 🤝 Invite friends
2. 02 Copy your referral link
3. 03 Share it with anyone who might find the bot useful
4. 04 When an invitee pays for their first subscription — 50% of their payment goes to you as Stars credits. Credits hold for 21 days (Telegram’s refund window), then land on your balance.

What the referral card shows

• Followed the link — everyone who launched the bot via your link
• Invited (paid) — only those who actually paid
• Stars · 21d hold — still on hold
• Paid out — final Stars credit balance

Credits apply to future subscription payments. Want to cash out directly — DM @zvon_off.

What we store

• Telegram ID and username — for authorization
• Channel profiles (topic, ToV, keys, etc.) — as JSON on our server
• API keys — encrypted (AES-128 + HMAC, master key isolated)
• Publishing history — for dedup and analytics
• Embeddings of published posts — for semantic dedup

What we DO NOT do

• Don’t pass your data to third parties
• Don’t use your content to train models
• Don’t peek at your API keys — they’re encrypted

Account deletion

DM @zvon_off — we delete everything within 24 hours: channel profiles, keys, history.

Anti-hacking

• HTTPS + Telegram WebApp HMAC auth on every request
• CSP / SSRF protection, all user URLs validated
• Secret encryption via cryptography.fernet

Shown when you tap / to the left of the input:

• /start — welcome and a quick guide
• /app — open the Mini App (via the menu-button on the left)
• /billing — current subscription and plans
• /whoami — your ID, plan, remaining limits
• /help — full help

How many channels can I connect?

By default 1 channel on Trial and per payment. Each extra purchase raises the limit by +1.

What if my Google Doc runs out of topics?

The bot sends a notification 1 day before topics drop below a day’s worth. Add new lines — the bot picks them up automatically.

Can I publish to multiple channels at once?

Each channel is its own profile with its own schedule. They run independently.

What if the AI produces a strange post?

In APPROVE mode you see the shortlist before publishing — pick a different material, regenerate, switch the rubric. In AUTO — forbidden_phrases and prompt_hint help avoid unwanted phrasing.

Can I disable images?

Yes, the "Auto image" toggle in Automation. Or tap "📤 Without image" on each draft manually.

What if the bot isn’t publishing?

1. 01 Check that mode isn’t set to PAUSE
2. 02 Check that the bot is a channel admin with the post right (see "The bot has to be a channel admin")
3. 03 Check the trial / plan hasn’t expired
4. 04 Check API keys — if the shared key ran out, the bot will send a notification
5. 05 Still stuck — DM @zvon_off

Stars don’t work — what now?

Telegram Stars aren’t available in RU, BY and some other countries. Use "✉️ Contact for payment" in the Mini App — pay by card or crypto via @zvon_off.

Can I cancel my subscription?

Telegram Stars allow refunds within 21 days via @PremiumBot. The bot processes the refund automatically.

How do I switch the interface language?

In the Mini App — RU / UA / EN selector in the top right corner.

• Telegram: @zvon_off — direct line to the author
• Website: represidium.com
• Bot: @AutoPosting_REPRESIDIUM_bot

We respond during working hours (UTC+3), usually within 1–2 hours.