# Filters

Filters completely hide messages from your view in chat. They're available in chats and channels.

You can quickly add a filter to current chat or to global by selecting some text in a message and clicking "Add filter".

As the title says, this feature will hide all messages from blocked users.

• You won't see their messages, reactions and typing status
• User won't be shown in the chat member list

To block a user, go to user's profile > three dots > Block user.

As the title says.

These are enabled across all channels (and chats if enabled).

Click on "+" in the top right corner and select desired chat.

You can exclude specific shared filter(s) by clicking on a button next to "+".

tg://ayu/filters/import/URL, where URL - URL without protocol.

Example: tg://ayu/filters/import/dpaste.com/H4EN4D8C4.txt

For security reasons, deep link works only with dpaste.com, gist.githubusercontent.com (raw gist.github.com), pastebin.com & nekobin.com.

All filters are Java regular expressions. You need to have knowledge in regex language to write complex expressions.

However, if you need just to block messages that contain a specific word, or maybe a hashtag, you can just specify it, without any changes.

You can filter out all messages with buttons by looking for a tag <button> in a text. It will also contain a link, if it's a link button.

Also, you can filter messages by its type. The type is written in format of <type>CONST</type>, where CONST is a constant value from this list.

Example text that regular expression will get to process for a text message with 2 buttons:

How's it going, bro?

<button>Nice</button>
<button>Meh</button>

<type>0</type>