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title: Add Alita Robot to your group
description: What Alita Robot does for a Telegram group — moderation, anti-spam, onboarding, logs, notes and filters — with one tap to add it with the admin rights it uses.
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  label: Add to your group
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Alita Robot is a free, open-source Telegram group management bot. It removes
spam, keeps the chat readable, and gates new members behind a check before they
can post. Add it once, then enable only the checks you want for that group.

**[Add Alita to your group](https://t.me/Alita_Robot?startgroup=botstart&admin=change_info+delete_messages+restrict_members+invite_users+pin_messages+promote_members)**

Opens Telegram with the admin permissions Alita uses already selected. Pick
your group and confirm.

**[Message Alita first](https://t.me/Alita_Robot?start=about)**

Want to look around before installing? Alita replies in a private chat with
what it can do.

## What it does

Grouped by the job you are hiring the bot for. Each section links to the commands
that do the work, so you can check the details before enabling anything.

### Moderation

- Ban, kick, mute, warn, and temporarily restrict members: [bans](/commands/bans/), [mutes](/commands/mutes/), [warns](/commands/warns/).
- Delete messages in bulk: [purges](/commands/purges/).
- Let members bring a message to an admin's attention: [reports](/commands/reports/).

### Anti-spam

- Flood control that mutes, kicks, or bans after too many messages: [antiflood](/commands/antiflood/).
- Word and phrase blacklists with a configurable action: [blacklists](/commands/blacklists/).
- An optional join check against the CAS and lols.bot spam databases: [spamdb](/commands/spamdb/).
- Locks for links, forwards, stickers, media, and other message types: [locks](/commands/locks/).
- Anti-raid mode for mass joins: [antiraid](/commands/antiraid/).

### Onboarding

- A captcha challenge, math or text, before a new member can post: [captcha](/commands/captcha/).
- Welcome and goodbye messages with placeholders: [greetings](/commands/greetings/).
- Approved members who skip the flood, blacklist, and captcha checks: [approvals](/commands/approvals/).

### Logs

- Send admin actions to a dedicated log channel: [log channels](/commands/logchannels/).

### Notes, filters, and rules

- Save notes and recall them with a hashtag: [notes](/commands/notes/).
- Keyword filters that answer automatically: [filters](/commands/filters/).
- Set the group rules and show them on demand: [rules](/commands/rules/).
- Pin and unpin messages: [pins](/commands/pins/).

### Fit it to your group

- Pick a language for the group or for yourself: English, Spanish, French, Hindi, Indonesian, Portuguese, or Russian — [languages](/commands/languages/).
- Turn a single command off for one chat: [disabling](/commands/disabling/).
- Everything else, command by command: [command reference](/commands/).

## What it looks like

These are illustrations of Alita's replies in the current release, not
screenshots. The text is the bot's own message text.

<picture>
  <source media="(prefers-color-scheme: dark)" srcset="/illustrations/warn-dark.svg" />
  <img src="/illustrations/warn-light.svg" alt="Illustration of Alita's reply to a warn command, showing the warning count, the reason, and a Remove warn button" width="1200" height="560" loading="lazy" decoding="async" />
</picture>

*Illustration: a warning adds the reason to the member's record and offers a one-tap “Remove warn”.*

<picture>
  <source media="(prefers-color-scheme: dark)" srcset="/illustrations/ban-dark.svg" />
  <img src="/illustrations/ban-light.svg" alt="Illustration of Alita's reply after banning a member in a group chat" width="1200" height="560" loading="lazy" decoding="async" />
</picture>

*Illustration: a ban is confirmed in the group, and the action can be logged to a channel.*

<picture>
  <source media="(prefers-color-scheme: dark)" srcset="/illustrations/captcha-dark.svg" />
  <img src="/illustrations/captcha-light.svg" alt="Illustration of Alita's captcha welcome message with a math question and answer buttons" width="1200" height="560" loading="lazy" decoding="async" />
</picture>

*Illustration: a new member answers a captcha before they can post.*

## What you get

**[Free and open source](https://github.com/divkix/Alita_Robot)**

MIT-licensed Go code, developed in the open. Free to use.

**[7 languages](/commands/languages/)**

English, Spanish, French, Hindi, Indonesian, Portuguese, and Russian, chosen
per group or per user.

**[Self-hostable](/self-hosting/)**

Run your own instance with Docker, a prebuilt binary, or a source build.

**Per-chat settings**

Every switch, lock, and filter belongs to one chat. Changing one group never
touches another.

## Get started

1. **Add Alita and confirm the permissions**

    Use the [add-to-group link](https://t.me/Alita_Robot?startgroup=botstart&admin=change_info+delete_messages+restrict_members+invite_users+pin_messages+promote_members) or the button above, pick the group, and accept the permissions Telegram shows. They are the rights Alita checks before it acts.

2. **Set the rules and a welcome**

    ```
    /setrules Be kind. No spam, no unsolicited links.
    /setwelcome Welcome {mention}! Please read /rules before chatting.
    ```

3. **Turn on the checks you want**

    ```
    /captcha on
    /captchamode math
    /setflood 5
    /setfloodmode mute
    ```

:::tip[Need help?]
Ask in the [support chat](https://t.me/DivideSupport), read the
[quick start guide](/getting-started/quick-start/), or open an issue on
[GitHub](https://github.com/divkix/Alita_Robot/issues). Every command is listed
in the [command reference](/commands/).
:::