Telegram

Author: Irene Cho

This plugin sends messages or files to Telegram.

Primary Features

You can send a file or a message to Telegram using a bot.
‘Find a Chat Id’ operation will help to get a chat id.

Prerequisite

A. You must have a Telegram account.
B. You must make a Telegram bot.

NOTE
This plugin is designed as “Permissive Operation”. Failing to complete sending message/file WILL NOT stop the bot itself. In cases of failure, error messages from Slack will be the output in the Return Value.

Need help?

Technical contact to tech@argos-labs.com

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Contents

Input

Credentials
● Token
Chat Id
Message
File (file path) (Only when sending as a User)

Crate a Telegram bot

Login to your Telegram account (either with browser or with app): https://t.me/botfather
Send messages to BotFather

- Click ‘START’.
- Type ‘/newbot’.
- Type the name of your bot.
- Type the username for your bot.
- Save your token.

3. Invite your bot into a channel and send messages.

Parameter Settings

1. ‘Find a Chat Id’: To get a chat id, you must invite the bot into the channel and start the conversation.

- ‘id’ is Chat Id
- The output may be different depending on the types of a chat which are private, channel, group, and supergroup.

2. ‘Send a message and file’

Return Value

Select [Sting]
- Success: User definable (default is 0)
- Failure: Print error message but the bot will still run

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