Sequence of file link Robot Generate is just numbers

[AhyaH-YHWH]

Please generate a random word ( 10 or 15 Characters For Example)
after each message robot receive
and send it to linked channel of Robot, after message itself
say "ra2nd1o5mw3ord"

so the link the bot generate will be ( id number of message in Linked channel of Bot)

https://t.me/FilesBot?start=ra2nd1o5mw3ord_id
https://t.me/FilesBot?start=ra2nd1o5mw3ord_10
instead of

https://t.me/FilesBot?start=view_10_tg
for 10th message in the Linked Channel of Robot

so that random users can't find bot files
Thanks

[AhyaH-YHWH]

If I have bot username, I will generate all links like
https://t.me/FilesBot?start=view_12_tg
https://t.me/FilesBot?start=view_109_tg

and see the files users forwarded to bot

but this way, Random users can only access Files, if they have exact word in link

[code-rgb]

@SpEcHiDe time to use uuid :-)

[skrtdev]

Uhm, it makes sense

[SpEcHiDe]

I think, need a database if this needs to be implemented.

[skrtdev]

I think, need a database if this needs to be implemented.

No, it’s not needed, you can use some algorithms

[skrtdev]

Wait, it’s not possibile with an algorithm without using a db. Sorry I was wrong.

I’m thinking about it, let’s see if I find something

[SpEcHiDe]

it is not impossible, ideally you can use any algorithm which supports 2 way hashing (and returns a hash less than 64 characters), but I think not using a DB is over-engineering the problem..😅

[skrtdev]

Yeah but:

1. 2 way hashing is useless: everyone can access any file
2. In order to use DB on heroku you have to use Heroku’s own DB, and this prevent the bot to be hosted in other places

Also, if we’ll use a 2 way hashing, I’d like to use my own base26 encoding, that encodes every int in a string composed by only a-z lowercase letters

[SpEcHiDe]

2. I think we can override DATABASE_URL but I am not sure about it.