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Connect Google Contacts to Telegram

Your contacts hold the details that keep relationships going, and Telegram is where you already read messages on your phone. Connect them to get birthday reminders where you will see them, and to turn a business card from a meeting into a saved contact before you forget who gave it to you.
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Ideas

What you can do with Google Contacts and Telegram

Birthday reminders and business cards saved as contacts, all from your Telegram chat. These are ready-made starting points. Anything else you can describe works too.
DailyAI

Get birthday reminders from your contacts on Telegram

Each morning a Telegram message lists today's birthdays from your Google Contacts, with a short greeting you can send.

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The moment it happensAI

Save business cards to Google Contacts from Telegram

Send a photo of a business card to your Telegram bot and it is saved as a Google Contact, with a reply confirming the details.

See how it works Your own logic

Any other automation you can describe in words

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

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Build your own

Build any Google Contacts and Telegram automation you can describe

The ideas above are ready-made starting points, not a fixed list. Describe what should happen between Google Contacts 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

Remind me of birthdays two days ahead for contacts in my "Family" label and on the day for everyone else.

When I send /find with part of a name, return up to three matches with phone and email.

Use cases

Why people connect Google Contacts and Telegram

How the two apps work together

  • Messages to your Telegram bot arrive instantly through its webhook.
  • The script reads or creates contacts through the Google People API.
  • A daily schedule sends birthday and anniversary reminders to Telegram.

  • Busy people remembering birthdays

    A morning Telegram message lists today's birthdays from Google Contacts. Nobody is forgotten.

  • Salespeople saving new contacts

    A photo of a business card sent to Telegram creates a Google Contact. Details are saved on the spot.

  • Freelancers looking up contacts

    Typing a name to the bot returns phone and email from Google Contacts. Quick lookup from mobile.

  • Teams keeping contacts clean

    Duplicate or incomplete contacts are listed in Telegram weekly. The address book stays tidy.

More apps

Google Contacts, 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.

Birthdays and meetings

Each morning, send me on Telegram today's birthdays from Google Contacts and my meetings from Google Calendar.

Log new contacts

When I add a contact via my Telegram bot, also add it to my Google Sheet of leads.

Card to CRM

When I send a business card photo to my bot, create the Google Contact and a HubSpot contact.

Setup

Connect Google Contacts 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.

Google Contacts

Contacts / CRM

  1. At console.cloud.google.com, enable the People API in your project.
  2. Set up the OAuth consent screen and add the scope https://www.googleapis.com/auth/contacts.
  3. Create a Web OAuth client with the redirect URI https://clickruntime.com/oauth/callback.
  4. In the ClickRuntime dashboard, open Connections, choose Google Contacts and enter your client ID and client secret.

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 Google Contacts and Telegram

Which Telegram account sends the messages?
A bot you create with Telegram's BotFather. You save its token in your ClickRuntime dashboard, start a chat with the bot once, and it messages you there.
Can it read my whole address book?
It reads only what you allow when you connect Google. Birthday reminders need read access to contacts; saving business cards also needs permission to create contacts.
Can other people use my bot?
Anyone who finds the bot can message it, so the automations reply only to your own chat ID and ignore everyone else.
Does it work with Google Workspace contacts?
Yes. Connect the Google account that holds the contacts, whether it is a personal Gmail account or a Workspace account.
Can it edit contacts?
Yes. The script can update fields such as phone, email or notes.
Can it add contacts to labels?
Yes. New contacts can be added to a contact group.
Is my address book shared?
No. Contacts stay in your Google account and only go to the Telegram chats you set.

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