v3.1

What's Changed

• Fixed script crash when trying to parse VK video clip (by @sandboiii).
• Implemented reformatting VK links in the posts text (#47).
• Implemented handling VK groups without custom domain names (#45) (by @sandboiii).

v3.0

What's Changed

• The script was completely rewritten from scratch.
• Improved the architecture and structure of the project.
• The script has been rewritten from the pyTelegramBotAPI library to the aiogram library.
• Improved logging. Implemented rotation and compression of log files for convenience and to save memory space.
• The script settings have now been moved to the .env file for greater versatility when running the script in different ways.
• Many other improvements and changes.

v2.6

• Implemented sending posts with unlimited text length

v2.5

Important: You should re-fill config.py file because all variables have been renamed.

• Implemented sending of more types of documents.
  • The way to parse and send documents has been improved.
  • The bot can now parse and send GIF files, images, text files, and ebooks.
• Unnecessary overwriting of file last_known_id.txt was removed.
• Renamed all variables and functions according to pep8 rules.
• Fixed bug in send_log() when tg_channel is int

v2.4

Important: If you did not use a blacklist, replace the BLACKLIST = [""] value with an empty BLACKLIST = []

• Improved photo parsing. Now bot will remove c_uniq_tag attribute from links to photos, because under certain conditions, telegram did not parse links with this attribute.
• Implemented preview of links in reposts.
• Improved and optimized logging.
  • Now bot will keep one-day log files in a separate folder /logs/.
  • Also changed log messages.
• Implemented whitelist (#27).
• Posts will now be parsed in sequential order.
• Code reviewed.
• Minor changes.

v2.3

• Improved photo parsing. Now bot will still choose the largest size of all photo sizes regardless of their order in the array.
• Fixed a bug when trying to send log to private channel (when used channel ID (int) instead of link to channel (str) in tgLogChannel)
• Minor changes

v2.2

• Fixed bug when parse_mode="HTML" reads symbols <, >, & in the post text.
• Added more comments under method header.
• Updated link in config.py.

v2.1

• Added checking for posts with copyrights and group name to reposts

v2.0

• One big method has been rewritten into many small methods and sub-methods for better reading and performance.
• Bot can split VK posts larger than 4096 characters into many small (≤4090) messages for sending to Telegram.
• Bot can add VK videos links to the messages.
• Bot can send reposts as a separate messages. All media of the reposts also will be sent to Telegram.
• Minor fixes
• Minor changes in the README.md.

v1.6

• Added check_python_version() method. if your Python version <= 3.5 the script will be stopped.
• Added config.ShouldBotLog switcher: If ShouldBotLog = False bot will not create and keep bot.log file.
• Rewrited .format to f-strings