Setup guide

From nothing to your first batch

Ten minutes, most of it waiting for Telegram. Do these in order.

1 · Make the channel

One channel per story. Public or private both work — listeners tap a button, so it makes no difference to us.

In Telegram: New Channel → give it a name → choose public or private. If it's public, note the @username; if it's private, you'll paste a t.me/c/… message link instead.

2 · Add the bot as an admin

Open your channel → Administrators → Add Admin → search for the bot named on your dashboard.

It needs one permission: “Post messages”. Nothing else. It never deletes, never edits, never reads your other channels.

Searching for a bot only works in the Telegram mobile or desktop app. The web version won't find it — that's a limitation of the web client, not a problem with your channel.

3 · Add your shortener key

Every link posted to your channel goes through your shortener account, so the revenue is yours. Without a key a story can't start.

In the dashboard: Shortener keys → Add key. You need a label, the API endpoint (for LinkShortX it's https://linkshortx.in/api) and your API token.

Add more than one and we rotate between them, which keeps a single account from carrying all the traffic. Keys are encrypted and never shown again after saving.

4 · Add the story

Stories → Add story, then fill in:

Story link: The show URL, or just its id. We look it up immediately — if the title and episode count appear, it's the right one.
Channel: @yourchannel, a t.me/… link, or the numeric id.
Episodes per batch: Ten by default. This is how many episodes sit behind each link.
Daily automatic upload: Leave on and new episodes are picked up and published without you asking. Turn it off to publish only when you say so.

Press Verify channel. Green means the bot is an admin and can post. Red tells you exactly what's missing.

5 · Start it

Press Start. The progress bar has two layers: the solid part is what's published, the lighter part is what's downloaded and queued behind it.

Episodes already in our store publish in seconds. Anything new is fetched first — roughly ten seconds an episode — so a hundred-episode story takes about twenty minutes from scratch. You can close the tab; it keeps going.

Troubleshooting

“We can't see that channel”

The bot isn't in it yet, or isn't an admin. Add it as an admin with “Post messages”, then press Verify again.

“The bot is an admin but Post messages is off”

Open the channel's admin list, tap the bot, and enable that one permission.

“We can't find that story”

The id doesn't resolve to anything we can fetch. Check for a typo — and note some stories genuinely aren't available from the source.

“Waiting on episodes we haven't downloaded yet”

Not an error. Those episodes are being fetched now and the story continues on its own. Watch the lighter part of the progress bar move.

My channel got banned

Use Replace channel on the story. Your files were never in the channel, so nothing is lost — paste a new one and choose to resume where it stopped or restart from episode 1.

A listener says the files vanished

Copies in their own chat clear after 12 hours. The link still works — they can open it again for a fresh copy any time.

Open the dashboard