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Connect Gmail to Telegram

Not every important email should wait until you're back at your desk. Get urgent messages, leads and supplier invoices as a short Telegram message on your phone, and handle some of them from there, like searching your inbox or replying by voice note.
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Ideas

What you can do with Gmail and Telegram

Email alerts, digests and quick replies, with Telegram as your mobile inbox. These are ready-made starting points. Anything else you can describe works too.
Every 5 minutesAI

Sort your inbox with AI and get urgent emails on Telegram

New emails are labelled and newsletters archived for you, and only the urgent ones reach your phone as a Telegram message.

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DailyAI

Get a morning newsletter digest on Telegram

Yesterday's newsletters arrive as one short digest on Telegram at 7am, as text or a voice message.

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HourlyAI

Get new videos from your favourite YouTube channels with AI summaries

New videos from the channels you follow arrive on Telegram and by email, each with a short summary so you know which to watch.

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Every 5 minutes

Send TradingView alert emails to Telegram

New TradingView alert emails reach your phone on Telegram within minutes, with the ticker, signal and price.

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Every 5 min + daily

Monitor your sites and SSL certificates with Telegram alerts

Your websites are checked every 5 minutes and their certificates daily, and you hear on Telegram and by email when something is wrong.

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The moment it happensAI

Reply to emails with a Telegram voice note

Answer an email by recording a quick voice note on Telegram, and a polished written reply goes out in the original thread.

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Every 5 minutesAI

Answer support emails from your FAQ and escalate the rest to Telegram

Routine support questions get a reply from your FAQ within minutes, and anything the AI is unsure about is sent to you on Telegram instead.

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DailyAI

Clear out old promotional emails every night

Old promotions that are truly junk move to trash each night, and you get a short Telegram report of what went.

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The moment it happensAI

Search your Gmail by messaging a Telegram bot

Ask your Telegram bot for an email in plain words and get the best matches back in the chat.

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Every 5 minutesAI

Reply to new lead emails fast and get a Telegram ping

Each new lead email gets a personal first reply within minutes, and you get a Telegram message with the lead and how promising it looks.

See how it works Your own logic

Any other automation you can describe in words

Your own rules, schedule and AI steps with Gmail and Telegram, plus any other app. Describe it and your assistant builds it.

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More ideas

Every 15 min + incoming webhookAI

Approve supplier invoices from Telegram

Each supplier invoice email is sent to your Telegram with supplier, amount and due date, and replying 'ok' marks it Approved in Gmail.

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Build your own

Build any Gmail and Telegram automation you can describe

The ideas above are ready-made starting points, not a fixed list. Describe what should happen between Gmail and Telegram in your own words, with your conditions, other apps or an AI step, and your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.

  • Your own rules

    Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.

  • Any number of apps

    One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.

  • AI where it helps

    Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.

  • On a schedule or on each event

    Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.

For example, ask your assistant

Check my Gmail every 5 minutes and send me a Telegram message only for emails that AI judges need a reply today, with a one-line summary each.

At 8am every day, send me a Telegram digest of yesterday's unread emails grouped by sender, skipping newsletters and notifications.

Use cases

Why people connect Gmail and Telegram

How the two apps work together

  • ClickRuntime checks Gmail every few minutes for new emails matching a search, label or sender list.
  • Each match is sent to your Telegram chat or group through your bot, often with an AI summary instead of the full text.
  • Telegram messages to the bot reach a trigger link instantly, so you can reply with a command such as asking for a draft reply in Gmail.

  • Freelancer gets client emails on the phone

    Emails from client domains can be forwarded as short Telegram messages with sender and subject. The freelancer doesn't need to keep the mail app open.

  • Founder hears about payments and failures

    Emails about failed payments, chargebacks or large orders can trigger a Telegram message. Important money events stand out from newsletters.

  • Small team shares a support inbox in a group

    Support emails can be posted to a Telegram group with a short summary. Whoever is free replies from Gmail.

  • Traveler keeps an eye on booking emails

    Flight changes and booking confirmations can be sent to Telegram with times pulled from the email.

More apps

Gmail, Telegram and other apps in one automation

An automation isn't limited to two apps. Add the next step in another app and it runs as part of the same automation.

Email meeting requests to calendar with Telegram note

When an email asks to meet, suggest a time from my free Google Calendar slots and send me the proposal on Telegram to approve.

Log important emails and alert on Telegram

Add every email from our top customers to my Customer Emails sheet and send me a Telegram message for each one.

Payment failure alerts

When Stripe reports a failed payment, look up past emails with that customer in Gmail and send me a Telegram summary.

Setup

Connect Gmail and Telegram once

Every idea on this page uses the same two connections, so you set them up once. If one is missing, your assistant tells you and links to the right place.

Gmail

Email

  1. At console.cloud.google.com, create a project and enable the Gmail API under APIs & Services → Library.
  2. Set up the OAuth consent screen. On Google Workspace choose Internal. On a personal Gmail account choose External, then under Audience click Publish app so it is In production, not Testing.
  3. Under Data Access, add the scopes you need, such as https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.modify, or gmail.send if you only want to send.
  4. Under Clients, create an OAuth client of type Web application with the redirect URI https://clickruntime.com/oauth/callback.
  5. In the ClickRuntime dashboard, open Connections, choose Gmail and enter the client ID and secret. On a personal account Google shows an unverified-app screen: click Advanced, then go to your app.

Telegram

Messaging

  1. In Telegram, open a chat with @BotFather and send /newbot.
  2. Choose a name and a username for your bot, then copy the token BotFather sends (it looks like 123456:ABC-...).
  3. Open your new bot and press Start, so it is allowed to message you. For groups or channels, add the bot and give it admin rights if it should post or delete.
  4. In the ClickRuntime dashboard, open Connections & secrets and save the bot token.

FAQ

Questions about connecting Gmail and Telegram

How does ClickRuntime send Telegram messages?
Through a Telegram bot you create with BotFather. You save its token as a secret in your ClickRuntime dashboard and start a chat with the bot so it can message you.
Will I get a message for every email?
No. Each automation forwards only what matches its rules, such as emails from certain senders or ones marked urgent.
Can it send to a group instead of just me?
Yes. Add the bot to a Telegram group and use that group's chat ID.
Does the full email go to Telegram?
Usually it sends the sender, subject and a short summary, with a link back to Gmail. You can choose to include more.
Can I reply to emails from Telegram?
Yes, if you set it up. A message to your bot can create a Gmail draft or send a reply, and you can require a confirmation step first.
How quickly do emails reach Telegram?
Gmail is checked on a schedule, as often as every 5 minutes, so alerts usually arrive within a few minutes.
Can it filter out newsletters?
Yes. The script can use Gmail categories, sender lists or the built-in AI to skip anything you don't want.

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