Telegram node

Use the Telegram node to automate work in Telegram and integrate Telegram with other applications. Otera has built-in support for a wide range of Telegram features, including getting files as well as deleting and editing messages.

On this page, you'll find a list of operations the Telegram node supports and links to more resources.

Credentials

Refer to Telegram credentials for guidance on setting up authentication.

Operations

• Chat operations
  • Get up-to-date information about a chat.
  • Get Administrators: Get a list of all administrators in a chat.
  • Get Member: Get the details of a chat member.
  • Leave a chat.
  • Set Description of a chat.
  • Set Title of a chat.
• Callback operations
  • Answer Query: Send answers to callback queries sent from inline keyboards.
  • Answer Inline Query: Send answers to callback queries sent from inline queries.
• File operations
  • Get File from Telegram.
• Message operations
  • Delete Chat Message.
  • Edit Message Text: Edit the text of an existing message.
  • Pin Chat Message for the chat.
  • Send Animation to the chat.
    • For use with GIFs or H.264/MPEG-4 AVC videos without sound up to 50 MB in size.
  • Send Audio file to the chat and display it in the music player.
  • Send Chat Action: Tell the user that something is happening on the bot's side. The status is set for 5 seconds or less.
  • Send Document to the chat.
  • Send Location: Send a geolocation to the chat.
  • Send Media Group: Send a group of photos and/or videos.
  • Send Message to the chat.
  • Send Photo to the chat.
  • Send Sticker to the chat.
    • For use with static .WEBP, animated .TGS, or video .WEBM stickers.
  • Send Video to the chat.
  • Unpin Chat Message from the chat.

Add bot to channel

To use most of the Message operations, you must add your bot to a channel so that it can send messages to that channel. Refer to Common Issues | Add a bot to a Telegram channel for more information.

Related resources

Refer to Telegram's API documentation for more information about the service.

Otera provides a trigger node for Telegram. Refer to the trigger node docs here for more information.

Common issues

For common errors or issues and suggested resolution steps, refer to Common Issues.