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Connect Google Docs to Telegram

Telegram is quick to reach from your phone, and Google Docs is where longer writing lives. Connect them to send ideas, voice notes and links to a bot and find them written up in a document, or to ask a bot questions answered from your own Docs.
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Ideas

What you can do with Google Docs and Telegram

Notes, drafts, summaries and answers, sent from Telegram and kept in Google Docs. These are ready-made starting points. Anything else you can describe works too.
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Chat with a Telegram assistant that remembers you

Your Telegram bot answers using the notes in your Memory Google Doc, and adds anything new you tell it to that doc.

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Answer Telegram questions from your Google Docs

People ask your Telegram bot a question and get an answer based only on your FAQ or policy Google Doc.

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DailyAI

Draft on-brand social posts and approve them in Telegram

Each morning you get social post drafts written in your brand voice, with Approve and Reject buttons in Telegram.

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Summarise YouTube videos from Telegram into a Google Doc

Send a YouTube link to your Telegram bot and get a summary back, saved in your Video notes doc as well.

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Save Telegram voice notes and photos into a Google Doc journal

Voice notes you send to Telegram are transcribed and tagged, and photos are added to the same journal doc with a link, all in date order.

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Turn Telegram notes into a proposal in Google Docs

Send /proposal and your rough notes to your Telegram bot and get back a link to a formatted proposal in Google Docs.

See how it works Your own logic

Any other automation you can describe in words

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

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Build your own

Build any Google Docs and Telegram automation you can describe

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

When I send my bot a text note starting with 'idea:', append it to my Ideas Doc under today's date heading, creating the heading if needed.

Answer questions sent to my Telegram bot using only the text in my Policies Google Doc, and reply 'not covered' if the answer isn't in it.

Use cases

Why people connect Google Docs and Telegram

How the two apps work together

  • Messages to your Telegram bot reach a trigger link instantly through Telegram's webhook.
  • Text is written into a Google Doc, or the Doc is read to answer the message.
  • ClickRuntime can also check Docs on a schedule and send updates to Telegram.

  • Writer captures notes by message

    Notes sent to a Telegram bot are appended to a Google Doc with the time. Ideas are saved without opening Docs.

  • Team gets doc summaries on the phone

    When a Doc is updated, a short AI summary of the changes is sent to a Telegram group.

  • Small business answers questions from a Doc

    Staff ask the bot a question, and it answers from a policies Doc.

  • Journal keeper keeps a daily log

    A daily prompt from the bot collects a reply that goes into a dated Doc.

More apps

Google Docs, 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.

Telegram notes into dated Docs in Drive

Save each Telegram message I send my bot into a Doc named by date in my Drive Notes folder.

Telegram ideas in a Doc and Notion

Append my Telegram ideas to my Ideas Doc and also add each one as a Notion page.

Doc change summaries to Telegram and Slack

When our Handbook Doc changes, send a summary to our Telegram group and to #general in Slack.

Setup

Connect Google Docs 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 Docs

Documents

  1. At console.cloud.google.com, enable the Google Docs API in your project. Enable the Google Drive API too if you want to copy templates, export PDFs or list folders.
  2. Under IAM & Admin → Service Accounts, create a service account and add a JSON key.
  3. Share the doc, or the folder it lives in, with the service account's email as Editor.
  4. In the ClickRuntime dashboard, save the JSON key as a secret on Connections & secrets.

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 Docs and Telegram

Do I need my own Telegram bot?
Yes. You create one with BotFather in a minute and save its token in your ClickRuntime dashboard. Only you, or the chats you allow, can use it.
Can other people message my bot?
Anyone who finds a bot can message it, so these automations check the chat ID and only respond to the people or groups you list.
Which Docs can the bot read?
Only the documents or folder you name. It does not search the rest of your Google Drive.
Can I send voice notes?
Yes. Voice notes can be transcribed and added to a document as text, with the date, so you can read them back later.
Can the bot answer from more than one Doc?
Yes. The script can read several Docs and use them as reference.
Who can use the bot?
Anyone who finds it, unless you limit it. The script can check Telegram user IDs.
Does it change existing text in my Doc?
Only if you ask. Most setups append text and leave the rest alone.

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