Telegram
Your app gets its Telegram bot: it notifies you (or a group) of every sign-up or order, and can answer your users’ messages. The bot token takes two minutes to create with @BotFather.
Category : Messaging · Service website : telegram.org
What you can do with it
Section titled “What you can do with it”- Hear about every order or sign-up
- Alerts in your team’s group
- A bot that answers frequent questions
- Reminders sent to your users
What the agent can do
Section titled “What the agent can do”- Send messages to the chats the bot was added to
- Receive the messages written to the bot (webhook, published app)
- Test the token by reading the bot’s identity, without sending anything
What it never does
Section titled “What it never does”- Message someone who never wrote to the bot (Telegram forbids it)
- Show your key in the chat, in browser code or in logs
- Use it outside of this project’s app
Values to provide
Section titled “Values to provide”- Bot token (
TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN, secret: encrypted, read only by the app’s server) : Your Telegram bot’s token: in Telegram, message @BotFather, send /newbot and follow the steps; it gives you the token (123456:ABC…). Where to find it
Add this connector
Section titled “Add this connector”- Mention it in your request (the + menu of the input → Connectors, or type
@), for example: “Add a contact form with @Telegram”. - The agent adds the app server if needed, writes the code and asks you for missing values with a card in the chat.
- You can also save it once on the Highwind Connectors page: the connection then links to any project in one click. Technical id:
telegram.
Billing
Section titled “Billing”Free
Learn more: Connectors overview and App secrets.