# Advanced bot settings

> Content filters, find and replace, keyword links, text at the start/end of posts, image rules and OCR.

*Help Center / News bots and AI · Updated: 2026-10-14 · 4 min read*

- **Available to:** All users
- **Plans:** All plans

The expandable sections at the bottom of the bot form let you fine-tune what bots publish.

## Content filters

Articles are filtered before they’re sent to the AI or your site.

- **Skip empty articles:** Not published if there’s no usable text.
- **Only publish if it contains:** At least one keyword must appear (separate with commas or new lines).
- **Keyword matching:** **Match anywhere** (part of a word counts) or **Match whole word**.
- **Skip if it contains:** Not published if any of these words appear (e.g. spam, advertorial).
- **Min. / Max. words:** Skips articles that are too short or too long.

## Find and replace

Changes the text after the AI rewrite. Write rules as **find|replace**; add **|titleonly** or **|contentonly** to apply only to the title or content. Leave the replacement empty to delete the matched text.

- **Preserve HTML tags before replacing** (recommended): Doesn’t touch markup or existing links.
- **Replace words:** Only whole words/phrases match.
- **Apply to titles too** and **Use # as separator** options.

## Keyword links

Turns words in the post body into links. Write rules as **keyword|url**; separate several keywords for the same address with commas. With **Replace each keyword only once per post** on, only the first occurrence is linked. Existing links aren’t touched.

## Text at the start / end of posts

Adds fixed text to the very start (e.g. an editor’s note) or end (e.g. a source note) of every post. It’s applied after the AI rewrite and not sent to the model; HTML is supported.

## Image rules

- **If an image can’t be saved to the server:** Skip the post, or remove that image and publish without it.
- **Default feature image** and **Only send this image:** Ignores source images and uses your image on every post.
- **Ulakom URL mode:** Uses the image by its external address without uploading it to media.
- **Read images if text is short (OCR):** If the body has very little text (e.g. a story made only of images), text in up to 3 images is read and added to the rewrite.

> **Tip:** After changing settings, do a single run with **Run now** and check the result on the **Publish** page.

## Related articles

- [Creating a news bot](https://ulakom.com/md/en/help/bots/create-bot.md)
- [Facebook page and group bots](https://ulakom.com/md/en/help/bots/facebook-bots.md)
- [AI bot: automatic posts from keywords](https://ulakom.com/md/en/help/bots/ai-bot.md)

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Source page: https://ulakom.com/en/help/bots/bot-advanced