Telegram Bot – Triggers & Methods

• Open your channel or group then go to info settings by clicking on its name > Pen icon to edit.

• Scroll down and select “Members”, then click “add members” button > search your telegram bot in “add people” field.

• Search your Telegram bot in “add people” field.

• Select your bot and click on the “next” button, then click on “ADD” button. Voila, you have added your bot to your telegram Channel or group.

Promote the Telegram Bot to Admin Copy Link

• Like in the previous step “how to add members”, open your channel or group then go to info settings by clicking on its name > Pen icon to edit.
• Now, scroll down and select “Administrators”, then click “add Administrators” button > select your bot member you previously added.
• In this step you can check the admin permission given to your bot, keep the default permission then click on the “go back” button. Here, you can notice that your bot has been promoted.

• Click here: userinfobot or go to your Telegram desktop app then search @userinfobot.
• In the chat, click on Start or send any message.
• Userinfobot will send back a message with your Telegram bot Chat ID.
• Keep it for later use in your Flows.

• Log in to Telegram Web in your browser ( To log in using the Telegram Mobile App, go to Settings > Devices > Link Desktop Device and scan the QR code).
• Click on the chat of your Telegram Public Channel where you intend to send the message and have included your Telegram bot.
• Look at the browser URL, you can see your Public channel or group name with “@”,the Chat ID of your Public Channel or Group will be “@name”, in our case it’s “@wiresk”.

• Log in to Telegram Web in your browser( To log in using the Telegram Mobile App, go to Settings > Devices > Link Desktop Device and scan the QR code).
• Open the chat of the Telegram Group/Channel where you want to send the message and have added your Telegram bot.

When you click on chat of the Telegram Group/Channel, you can find the Chat ID in the URL. For example, if the URL is  web.telegram.org/k/#- 2466415175, then “-2466415175” is the Chat ID of the Telegram Group/Channel.

• Go to your Telegram Web in your browser (To connect using the Telegram Mobile App, go to Settings > Devices > Link Desktop Device and scan the QR code). 
• Open a chat from a channel or a group, click right on the message you wish to reply to then select “copy message link”. 
• If it a public group or channel, you will get a link in this format: https://t.me/Wiresk_public/33 
• If it’s a private group or channel, you will get this format: https://t.me/c/2466415175/33 
•  In our example, the number “33” is your message ID. 

You can Map your Message ID or Other fields from a Step response within your Flow. 

• Add a Method in your Flow, in the configuration screen, click on the message ID input field, then select the Responses tab. 
• Uncheck “Show recommended” case, then just select the message ID shown by the red arrow. You can repeat these steps to map the other fields. 

When you use the Forward a Message Method, the response also contains a Message ID, but it’s for the newly created forwarded message, not the original one.

Example response from:

{
  "ok": true,
  "result": {
    "message_id": 67891,  // NEW message ID of the forwarded message
    "from": {
      "id": 123456789,
      "is_bot": true,
      "first_name": "MyBot",
      "username": "my_bot"
    },
    "chat": {
      "id": 1122334455,
      "type": "private"
    },
    "date": 1719127890,
    "forward_from_chat": {
      "id": 99887766,
      "type": "channel",
      "title": "Original Channel"
    },
    "forward_from_message_id": 54321,    // ID of the original message
    "text": "Original message content"
  }
}

{
  "ok": true,
  "result": {
    "message_id": 67891,  // NEW message ID of the forwarded message
    "from": {
      "id": 123456789,
      "is_bot": true,
      "first_name": "MyBot",
      "username": "my_bot"
    },
    "chat": {
      "id": 1122334455,
      "type": "private"
    },
    "date": 1719127890,
    "forward_from_chat": {
      "id": 99887766,
      "type": "channel",
      "title": "Original Channel"
    },
    "forward_from_message_id": 54321,    // ID of the original message
    "text": "Original message content"
  }
}

If you want to reference the original message’s ID: use “forward_from_message_id“.

• In your Flow, add the Method ” Forward Message“, then forward the message that contain your media, for example, an image.
• When you do a Run of your Flow, if succeed, you can notice a green tick icon over the Forward Message Method.
• Click on that green icon, then find the File ID in the “Current step Response”.

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