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For those who don't like or use Telegram, here is a notification bot for SimpleX.

What is SimpleX?

SimpleX is an E2E-encrypted messaging app that does not require a phone number, email, or any other personal information.

https://simplex.chat

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Features

- Mention notifications
- Merit notifications
- Tracked topics
- Tracked phrases
- Tracked users
- Ignored users

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How do I use the bot?

1. Add the bot to your contacts with the SimpleX address:

https://www.talkimg.com/images/2025/03/19/0DSvH.png


2. Wait a few seconds for the bot to accept your contact.

3. Follow the bot instructions (set your forum username and uid).

4. That's it!

Keep in mind that the bot might have a small delay when answering (compared to the telegram one) due to the SimpleX client api.
Also, there might be issues since it's my first time coding a bot for SimpleX. Let me know of any bugs. :)

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Commands

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26/03/2025
- added ignored topics

21/03/2025
- added /only_direct command
- fixed doubled tracked phrase notifications

I checked the bot! Everything works fine, all that's left is for you to reply to this message and I'll make sure that the notifications work.

By the way, have you thought about using formatting to make the text look pretty (colors)?:

Hey. ::)


Might test colors, but I couldn’t find a good format.

I wish there was a way of embedding urls in a text, right now I need the full url to link a post, for example. :P

On telegram I can do: Mentioned by TryNinja for POST TITLE HERE (http://POST TITLE HERE) (url inside).

This is unfortunately true.
I made a list of what is needed including a link in the text and a bunch of others... Sent it to the developers, I hope they will answer whether they will do this and when. But for now we use what we have..

I confirm that the bot worked in the best possible way.
Very useful! ^{(There is even a sponsor, ahaha)}

Thank you for making this bot TryNinja, but looks like bot is currently not working for me.
I was able to add the contact, but there was no instructions, and nothing happened when I typed /help.
Nothing is happening even after I removed the contact and add it back again.
I have other simplex bots working fine, so is there any issue on your side maybe?

Could you try again?

Yeah, I removed than added contact again, and now it's working fine. :)
Now I will do some testing to see how bot behaves with notifications and commands.

I guess there are some limitations with simplex chat, but there are much more advantages compared to telegram app.
As for use of color in bots, I saw eXch bot using green color.

Cool to see a new SimpleX bot. Thank you OP.

However it's not working on my side...
I'm using the latest SimpleX version on Linux.

Error log:

Not sure what I'm seeing here. Is this an error on SimpleX? Is this showing up when you try to add the bot as a contact?

Yeah, when I add the bot with the contact address provided in OP, SimpleX crashes, and I get a box with the above error log on next startup.
The contact line of the bot is written in red "There is an error..." (in my contact list) and when clicking on it, it closes Simplex.

I think this is happening because I passed an url as the bot profile avatar and that's just not how this works. Not sure how to add a profile avatar and docs are very lacking, so I just removed it for now.

Can you see if you can open it now? If not, try removing and adding the bot again.

It works now, thank you!

I believe this bot is a great tool.
Thanks TryNinja.
I will test it and if it works flawlessly I will transition to this one instead of Telegram, which has also been very useful until today.

EDIT:

I didn’t receive notifications for the merits and the quoting in this message : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5535755.msg65187546#msg65187546

Could you see it? I did receive a notification in the Telegram bot.

I agree, for some reason, I didn't receive a notification about the merits from the user, even though everything was fine yesterday.
If there's anything I can help you with, feel free to drop me a DM.

TryNinja here are my first impressions after using the bot for one day.
I am not getting all notifications when someone replies to my posts, and I enabled mentions and merits in settings.
It's the same thing for merits, I received some notifications, but not all of them.
Does simpleX app need to be opened all the time (and correct user selected) to receive notification, or issue is with something else?

Ok, so I'm learning how SimpleX works as I code and debug, so bear with me. I think that unlike Telegram, which is very straightforward to send notifications since their servers do all the work behind the scenes, with SimpleX sometimes the user isn't connected and the notification just can't be sent. I refactored the code and now if the user isn't connected the notification data will be stored and it will retry when they do get connected. Hopefully it works. ;D

I got a notification for this quote of yours. Yeah so simpleX works differently. If you check in someone's profile, it says "Receiving on channel: xxx" and "Sending from channel: xxx", so I guess these channels require from the application to be turned on at the time of the actual message reception.

Impressive work!

The only thing I noticed at first was that when I sent my Bitcointalk username do I really need to click the lightning icon to go live? The forum ID question only appeared after I clicked it. So far the commands are working as expected and I haven’t encountered any errors.

Thanks! You don't have to. The lightning icon seems to be related to a live chat feature SimpleX has where the user sees what you're typing as you type, nothing to do with the bot. There is a delay when answering which is just how long the SimpleX client takes to receive and answer the message.

Ah that makes sense now  thanks for the clarification! The delay isn’t an issue for me as long as everything works reliably and so far it’s been smooth. Appreciate the work you’re putting into this it’s shaping up nicely!

Quick question then: I received a notification about your reply (which is great) but I also got notifications from a new topic where I wasn’t mentioned and a new reply in a thread where I wasn’t mentioned either. Is that expected behaviour or could it be picking up extra stuff unintentionally?

Well, your username is "text" so I guess someone is writing "I read this text on xxx..." and it's treating it as a mention to you. :P ;D

It's 4 am here so I'm about to go to bed, but tomorrow I'll add an option to notify only direct mentions and quotes. That is, @Text and actual quotes to your post, not the mention of the word "text'.

@Text

Update is live.

You can enable mention notifications for @tags and quotes with /only_direct

Also fixed a bug where tracked phrase notifications would be sent twice. I'm also trying something to prevent the bot from going down.

Oh hell,
I never knew it was even possible to run a bot on simplex. I am not that familiar with SimpleX. I guess I used it more than a year ago when one of my forum friends invited me to join SimpleX to have a chat. It seems SimpleX is getting popular. Even TryNinja decided to create a notifier bot for SimpleX users. Hmm, this is something cool. I have to re-install SimpleX and see how it works. It seems some crypto projects also use SimpleX.

Finally the long waited update is here. I must test this asap!  ;D
Just noticed this topic and already started the bot, let's see whether the bot works properly or not. The reality is, your notifier bot was the only reason for which some of the users were using telegram. But now with this new bot, we can uninstall that full of scammers app and shift to simpleX. Lets hope, it works without issue..

Knock knock, will someone mention/quote me?  ;)

SimpleX isn't used by many ppl so I didn't expect a notification bot for their apps. I'm going to download SimpleX. It's helpful you're starting with handy features

- Mention notifications
- Merit notifications
- Tracked topics
- Tracked phrases
- Tracked users
- Ignored users

I have not used SimpleX yet but I have been reading about it for a while. It looks like the best messaging app out there on paper. The rest of messaging apps have all sold out to this insane "enter your phone number to use" requeriment instead of using good ol username systems without verifications. I think I will give it a try. I will see if I can install it on linux Debian, does anyone use it here?

Yes, you can use SimpleX on Debian, and also on any Debian-based OS of course (like Mint, Ubuntu etc..). You can use it through an Appimage or install it via Flatpak. It's stable and running fine.

https://simplex.chat/downloads/#desktop-app

Apparently the bot worked without any issue so far. And I noticed no such delay in notification on SimpleX, which is certainly a good thing, because it is known for it's delay in messages. Btw, both the telegram one and the simpleX one, delivered the notification at the same time.

https://www.talkimg.com/images/2025/03/24/lZdRw.jpeg


The dev team has certainly improved their app drastically. But in the past it had many bugs and glitches like backup data corruption, message delay, error in importing and syncing, for which, I almost stopped using it. They also lacked desktop support before. But now, I can say, newcomers can also use it without any major problems.

It's funny because I 've mentioned you and it worked for you on both apps.
But for me, when I got some replies today, I kept receiving notifications on TG only. For some reason I don't receive notifications from SimpleX.
I will re-adjust my notification settings and perhaps try to disable and re-enable the notifications for mentions and tags manually it see if it works.

Try disabling the battery optimization for simpleX app, and also enable autostart and always running in background option as well. Sometimes the notification delay or the message not coming through are caused because of this.

p.s: I was just notified on both the platforms for the quote you did.

Great work TryNinja. I regularly use the telegram app, so it is no an inconvenience for me to run the bot there, but I will try out SimpleX to see which I prefer and also maybe see how else I can use the platform.

- Jay -

Thank you TryNinja for creating this bot, Excellent as always.
I don't actually use SimpleX, so I haven't tried the bot, but it looks interesting, so I'll give it a try later.

I've been using your bot for Telegram notifications, and it works perfectly for me, both on the desktop and mobile apps. I receive all the necessary notifications regularly without any glitches so far.

I'll leave the SimpleX bot as an optional extra if I encounter any issues with the Telegram bot. Thank you

Yeah I know, that is why I asked if simpleX chat app needs to be opened ;)
I think this workaround fixed the bug I first faces, and I received a bunch of notifications when I opened my app.
If I notice anything else I will report it here, but I didn't notice how to ignore specific topic from notifications in /help command.

Just implemented that. :)

/ignoretopic ID - Adds ignored topic
/del_ignoretopic ID - Deletes a ignored topic
/list_ignoretopics - Lists ignored topics

If you're fine with Telegram I rather use that, to be honest. The notification and the bot UX just looks better due to the maturity of their client.

But if you want more privacy and doesn't want your data (i.e phone number) linked to the account, that's what SimpleX is for. I hope they make the UI/UX better with time so more people use it. :)

Wouldn't "unignoretopic" make more sense?

Tried to keep a pattern because there is del_phrase, del_user, etc... how do I name all of that? Can't do unphrase. ;D

I'm one of those who didn't like using Telegram for any kind of bot, but this SimpleX bot quickly became an important part of my setup ^{[I had to re-add an old CRT monitor for the sake of always having your notification bot on the side (that's how important it is, so thank you very much for developing such a thing)]}.

A couple of notes:
- Is it possible to add the first few words of a topic to the result of /list_topics command?
- I tried deleting a phrase, but it appears it automatically got added back after I tried to double-check my phrase list ^{[is it because I was tracking only a single word, as opposed to a phrase?]}: Screenshot (https://www.talkimg.com/images/2025/03/27/lRbs9.jpeg)

Yes, that's on the list to be done.

Thanks, you should be able to delete them now. Please try again.

I just did and it appears to be fixed... Thank you for the prompt action :)

Super fast ninja speed :)
Everything works great so far.

I think they are going to do it in future, but some people actually prefer textual style interface instead of buttons, mostly guys who are using Linux OS.
Only thing I would like to see is option to select different font size, maybe compresses style for notifications, and custom sounds.

I see many are talking about strange messages received on their telegram SuperNotifier bot, but luckily Tryninja made SimpleX chat bitcointalk bot much safer and resistant on 'hacks'', malware and all other malicious attacks ;)

I think that anything that provides additional privacy is something that should be given a chance, so even though I haven't had any contact with this app until recently, I'd be happy to try out how this bot works in it. Personally, I don't mind if there is a slight delay compared to the Telegram bot, although those who "compete" to be the first to answer in each topic may not appreciate it.

The delay I meant was for the bot to answer your commands. The notification delay is usually on par with the telegram bot, sometimes it even has quicker merit notifications since it's checking the db more often.

For clarification that was an april fools prank, seems like some people didn't catch that :P (not talking about you btw).

Hello everybody.

@TryNinja could you help me? I am pretty much ignorant on how this bot works. I 've been using it for approximately a month. Since yesterday, I stopped receiving notifications, so I decided to delete the contact and try to reconnect. I am stuck at "You will be connected when your connection request is accepted, please wait or check later!".

My apologies, my server was down yesterday so that broke a bunch of things.

The simplex bot should be working again. ;)

I appreciate the fast fix. I confirm I was able to connect to the bot. I guess I should be receiving notifications as well, because it used to work until yesterday and the fact that the server was down explains the downtime of the bot. Thanks.

The forum gets a lot better with real-time notifications about people replying to you.

Try now. ;)

Hi TryNinja, is there any chance that your server is down? I haven't received some merit notifications.

Thanks, the simplex bot got stuck after I implemented some CI/CD changes to my apps.

Let me know if everything is working fine now.

Everything is working perfectly fine for me now.