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Bots and Webhooks

telegram-bot

  • to send messages on telegram channel using telegram-api, with bot-account

flow

  • create bot using bot_father, and save the access_token

    • edit bot's permission to give it ability to interact with channels

  • create a new private-channel

  • add new_bot as admin in new_channel

    • try adding using mobile-phone, if unable to do from web

  • remove excess permissions, keep only related to post_message

  • send message to channel using bot-api by providing channel_id in query param or as json_payload

always prefix channel_id with -100

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$tele_base="https://api.telegram.org/bot<YOUR_BOT_TOKEN>"

curl -s -XPOST "$tele_base/sendMessage\
     -H "content-type:application/json"\
     -d '{"chat_id":"-1003051237226", "text":"text to private channel"}' | jq

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discord-webhook

flow

  • create new channel, and then click on edit-channel
  • click on integration and then click webhooks
  • click new-webhook and copy the url

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