I will use this channel to post everything important about @stickersthiefbot

Useful links:
- source code
- report an issue
- donate

Useful info:
- to delete a pack, change a sticker's emojis, change stickers order and see a sticker/pack stats, go to @stickers
- when adding a sticker or creating a pack, you can send some emojis to use them for the next sticker you will send (see example)
- when adding a sticker or creating a pack, you can either pass a sticker or a png file
- when adding a sticker as a png file, you can pass the sticker's emojis in the caption

New feature!
While adding stickers to a pack, you can now send some emojis before sending the sticker. The bot will remember them and use them for the next sticker you will send (see at 0:11)

From now on, the bot will end every ongoing conversation (for example, when you add stickers with /add or remove stickers with /remove) after 15 minutes of inactivity

/createanimated is now deprecated: now /create will ask you to select the pack type (normal/animated)

You can now send me .webp files as well as .png files to create your stickers sets.

Telegram recently added the ability to add stickers to a pack by sending the (webp) sticker directly, using @stickers. This is a great news! And it makes @stickersthiefbot almost useless.

But, I won't shut the bot down: it allows you to handle the stickers addition process generally faster. Most of the times, I personally don't care about setting the sticker emojis manually - stickerthief by default will automatically use the original sticker's emojis (this is something you can't avoid using @stickers, of course). You can anyway set the emojis you like the most beforehand, by sending them before sending the sticker you are going to add.

Anyway, keep in mind that you can manage all the packs you've created with stickersthief from @stickers too! So if you want to just use @stickers from now on to configure your packs, you don't have to create them again from zero

I've just updated the bot to directly use stickers' webp files instead of converting them to PNGs (see this branch).

Please let me know in the comments if you run into any problem, or open a GitHub issue

I've just added a new command, /readd: it can be used to re-add to the bot the packs that have been removed from your sticker packs list (but not from Telegram).

Right now the only way to remove them is the /forgetme command (do not use it: it will make the bot forget all your packs), so you're not really going to need this new /readd command - but it might be useful in the future (eg. the machine where I'm hosting the bot explodes and I can't restore a backup of the database)

Unfortunately I do not have time to update the bot to support video stickers, they will not be supported anytime soon :( of course pull requests are welcome!

I've added a new command, /toemoji
It allows to resize any static sticker so it can be added to an emojis pack via @stickers

For now, the aspect ratio is not kept. That means that if the origin sticker was not 512x512 px, the result file will be a little compressed/stretched on one side. This is because custom emojis must be square, while stickers don't have to

The command allows also to crop the image by removing border areas with an alpha value lower than 255 (read: it removes transparent border areas). This option is still experimental and might not produce the intended result. To resize and crop the sticker, you have to use the new command this way: /toemoji -c

I made a quick change to /toemoji, now it respects the origin image's aspect rateo by default.

It also supports a new flag, -r, that can be used to ignore the image's aspect rateo and just resize it to 100x100 px. Flags can be combined as follows: /toemoji -c -r (make sure to include a space between them)

Today's last update: I've added another command, /tofile

Until today, when no operation was being executed, the bot would send you back as a file any sticker you sent it. Now you have to use the /tofile command to convert stickers to documents. It also supports video stickers and custom emojis.

Additionally, you can use it with the -png flag (eg. /tofile -png) to send static stickers as png instead of webp (webp is now the default format)

Hello everyone,
The bot finally supports video stickers! You can create a new video stickers set using /create, as always. The bot will let you decide what kind of stickers pack you want to create.

Please report any issue in the comments, everything should work as expected but there might still be some bugs to iron out