Forking a layout and paste-to-import

/forkbuybot in Telegram and pasting a buy post into the dashboard’s body editor both run through the same import mapper (lib/buybot-import.ts) and only ever touch the layout — never groups, never the on/off switch.

What a fork writes

/forkbuybot sends the pasted or forwarded message — text plus Bot API entities, so premium emoji ids survive without any clipboard step — to the dashboard, which maps it with the same importer the dashboard’s own paste-to-import uses (below).

What a fork writes

Setting	Value
`bodyParts`	Always overwritten with the mapped runs.
`headerParts`	Always cleared to empty — a custom body takes over the whole layout.
`sizeEmoji`	Overwritten only when the pasted post carries a recognisable size-emoji atom.
`imageUrl` / `mediaType` / `posterUrl`	Written only when the post has attached media and the bot is not already in random gallery mode — see Forking into a random-mode bot, below.

Warning

Fork writes body, size emoji and media only. It never sets enabled and never adds a group — a forked bot with no group wired still needs /enablebuybot afterward.

The opening prompt depends on is_styled — whether the bot’s current layout already departs from the defaults (any header/body/row run, media or random mode, a size emoji or row icon away from its default glyph, a button with a URL, the stacked button layout, an emoji scale away from its default, or an extra link). A never-styled bot is greeted plainly; a styled bot is warned first, naming the symbol when one is known.

The two fork prompts

Input	Output
Never styled	`Gotchu. Paste a buy bot post right here by forwarding it or pasting it in. Also, I can create a premium coin emoji for you, just send /newpack if you need one for the buybot.`
Already styled	`Bet. Let's fork a new buy bot. This will overwrite the existing styling for $SYM. Forward a message from the bot where it announces a buy, and we'll configure it ASAP.`

Literal PROMPT / RESTYLE_PROMPT strings (forkbuybot.py). The “for $SYM” clause is dropped when the symbol isn’t known yet.

Project links after a fork

A pasted post’s literal links — a “Website” button, a t.me/… line typed as plain text — are matched to a link slot by label, emoji or host (site_link_key), the same matching the dashboard’s paste-to-import uses.

Matching runs live, not once at fork time: on every render, any of the bot’s own already-set siteLinks overrides a literal link in the body, buttons or extra links that matches that slot; an unmatched or still-unset slot keeps the pasted post’s own literal link exactly as written. Right after a fork — before the owner has set their own project links — the layout keeps the other project’s literal URLs and labels until the owner fills theirs in.

Right after a fork, the contract address is asked for first: the DexScreener lookup that names the token is also where the profile links come from.

Emoji re-homing

A forked layout arrives carrying the other project’s premium emoji ids. Bots can send any custom emoji, so the buys already render correctly — but the layout then depends on a pack Memescale doesn’t control.

The new body and size emoji are scanned for premium emoji ids (/^\d{5,32}$/), first-seen order, deduplicated.
The same emoji files are re-uploaded into a fresh custom-emoji set titled buy bot pack @memescaleai, minted by a pool bot and ledger-debited like every other mint.
The layout’s ids are swapped for the new set’s ids, and the config’s updatedAt is bumped.
This runs in the background, after the fork itself has already been saved. A buy posted before it finishes still uses the old ids, which keep working.

Setting	Value
Set title	`buy bot pack @memescaleai`
Emoji cap	70 per pack (`PACK_MAX_EMOJIS`)
Serialization	Jobs are queued per bot, so two quick forks in a row can’t race each other.

Note

Nothing visible changes for the owner — the buy post looks identical before and after the re-home. Only the underlying emoji-set ownership changes.

Forking into a random-mode bot

Random gallery image mode is preserved across a fork. If the bot is already in random mode, a fork leaves the pasted post’s media out entirely rather than switching the bot to fixed media.

Reply, when there is no wizard card to open instead: Kept the random gallery image — the post's media was left out.

Media

Paste-to-import (the dashboard’s fork)

The dashboard has no dedicated fork button. Pasting a buy post into the body editor’s text box runs the same mapper /forkbuybot uses (lib/buybot-import.ts).

The paste is accepted as a buy post only once it maps at least 3 of these 8 placeholders: {AMOUNT}, {USD}, {TOKENS}, {PRICE}, {MCAP}, {WALLET}, {TX}, {EMOJIS} (looksLikeBuyPost). The mapper runs twice over the same paste — the first pass learns the other bot’s ticker, name and native symbol from its own text; the second pass maps every run using what the first pass learned.

Surface	When the paste doesn’t look like a buy post
Telegram (`/forkbuybot`)	Replies `That doesn't look like a buy post — paste the whole message from the other bot.` Nothing is written.
Dashboard body editor	Leaves the pasted text in the editor exactly as pasted. No message is shown.

When the paste is accepted, the mapper also strips branding, referral and ad content before mapping the rest to placeholders:

Branding lines — “by @handle”, ”@…bot”/”@…trending” mentions, “product of”, “advertisement”, “powered by”, “dex paid”, “trending #N”.
Referral URLs — t.me/<name>?start=… links, and named referral/ad bots (spydefi, cherrytrending, maestro, trojan, bonkbot, majorbots.io/buybot, suibainu, boostlegends).
Bare ad-vocabulary lines — “trending”, “ads”, “volume bot”, “calls”, “vote”, “buy”, “swap”, “boost”, “bump”, “snipe”, “bot”, “promote”, “premium” on their own.

Note

No foreign URL survives: every surviving link is either matched to one of the 8 site-link slots or stripped down to its plain text, with no host left behind.