How to use Telegram API with Jet WorkFlow

7.1.How to use Telegram API with Jet WorkFlow

We will need to create a telegram bot in order to generate the chat id required for the telegram API to work.

Go to the Telegram app (https://telegram.org/) and search for BotFather.

Start a chat with BotFather and use the ‘/newbot’ command to create a new bot.

BotFather will guide you through naming your bot and will provide a bot token (API key) which you will need later.

				
					https://api.telegram.org/bot<your-bot-token>/sendMessage?chat_id=<chat id>&text=<yourtext>

You can use either HTTP GET or POST to run the API.

These are the parameters you need.

In order to get the chat_id required to send message, you will need to first send a message to the bot we created earlier.

Next we need to run the below url in your browser.

Fill in the bot token that you get during the bot creation.

				
					https://api.telegram.org/bot<your-bot-token>/getUpdates

In this example, the chat id is 1234567890

And using it in the sendMessage API, it will be like this.

				
					https://api.telegram.org/bot<your-bot-token>/sendMessage?chat_id=1234567890&text=hello

And since we are going to be using this in automation, we can do something like the below, where {name} is the field name of the form we are using.

				
					https://api.telegram.org/bot<your-bot-token>/sendMessage?chat_id=1234567890&text={name}