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Connect Google Sheets to Telegram

A sheet is an easy place to keep a list, and Telegram is where many people actually look during the day. Connect them to get alerts, digests and quizzes from the rows in your sheet, or to send a message or a photo to a bot and have it land as a new row.
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Ideas

What you can do with Google Sheets and Telegram

Alerts, bots, logs and daily messages, with your sheet as the list and Telegram as the place you hear about it. These are ready-made starting points. Anything else you can describe works too.
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Turn Telegram ideas into short videos logged in a sheet

Message your bot an idea and get back a finished short video, with every video tracked in your Google Sheet.

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Answer Telegram questions from a Google Sheet

People message your Telegram bot and get answers drawn from your sheet, with every question and reply logged.

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Turn receipt photos into rows in your expense sheet

Send a photo of a receipt to your Telegram bot and the merchant, date, total and category land in your expenses sheet.

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Weekly

Send a weekly Telegram message to every chat in a sheet

Write your announcement once in a sheet and every Telegram chat on your list gets it on Monday morning, with each one marked as sent.

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DailyAI

Get a daily vocabulary quiz from your sheet on Telegram

Every evening your Telegram bot quizzes you on five words from your sheet, checks your answers and records your score next to each word.

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Log meals and macros by messaging a Telegram bot

Tell your bot what you ate and get calories and macros logged in your sheet, with today's total in the reply.

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Every 5 minutes

Get Telegram alerts when a site in your sheet goes down

Every site in your sheet is checked every 5 minutes, its status is kept up to date, and you get a Telegram message when one goes down or recovers.

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Every 5 minutes

Log trading alert emails to a sheet and Telegram

Each TradingView alert email is logged with ticker, action and price in your sheet and pushed to your Telegram within minutes.

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DailyAI

Get a daily Telegram news digest on your own topics

Each morning a short summary of the news on the topics in your sheet arrives in Telegram, and every digest is logged.

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Every 6 hours

Track competitor prices from a sheet

List competitor product pages in a sheet and get a Telegram message whenever one of their prices changes, with the latest price recorded in the sheet.

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Any other automation you can describe in words

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

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More ideas

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Sell with Telegram Stars and log every payment in a sheet

Customers buy from your bot with Telegram Stars, and every payment and refund lands in your Google Sheet.

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Daily

Get Telegram warnings before SSL certificates expire

Each day the domains in your sheet are checked, the days left on each certificate are written next to them, and you get a Telegram message for any under 14 days.

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Track focus sessions from Telegram in a sheet

Start and stop focus sessions with a Telegram message and every session is logged with its duration, with today's total in the reply.

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The moment it happens

Record every Telegram bot user in a sheet

Each new person who messages your Telegram bot is added to a sheet and greeted, and returning users get their last-seen date updated.

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DailyAI

Get matching job posts on Telegram and log them in a sheet

Each morning, new job posts from your feeds are scored against your profile, good matches are added to your Jobs sheet and the best ones arrive on Telegram.

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The moment it happens

Log expenses from Telegram messages to Google Sheets

Type "12.50 lunch" to your bot and a row with the date, amount, category and note is added to your Google Sheet, with this month's total in the reply.

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Every 5 minutes

Get a Telegram message when a Google Sheet gets a new row

Every 5 minutes ClickRuntime checks a Google Sheet and sends a Telegram message for each new row, such as a form response or order, with the columns you pick.

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Build your own

Build any Google Sheets and Telegram automation you can describe

The ideas above are ready-made starting points, not a fixed list. Describe what should happen between Google Sheets 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 message my bot something like 'spent 24 on lunch', use AI to read the amount and category and add a row to my Budget sheet, then reply with this month's total for that category.

Every hour, check my Stock sheet and send a Telegram alert for items below their minimum, but only once until the value goes back up.

Use cases

Why people connect Google Sheets and Telegram

How the two apps work together

  • Messages to your Telegram bot reach a trigger link instantly and can be added as rows in the sheet.
  • ClickRuntime checks the sheet on a schedule, as often as every 5 minutes, for new rows or values that need an alert.
  • Alerts and summaries are sent to a Telegram chat, group or channel through your bot.

  • Shop owner gets daily sales on Telegram

    A sales sheet can be summarized each evening and sent as a Telegram message with totals and the best seller.

  • Field team logs entries by message

    Crew members send '12 boxes delivered to Store 4' to a bot, and a row is added to the sheet.

  • Manager watches thresholds

    When a value like stock, spend or signups crosses a limit in the sheet, a Telegram alert goes out.

  • Teacher or coach sends reminders from a list

    A sheet of names, dates and messages can drive reminders to a Telegram group.

More apps

Google Sheets, 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.

Shopify orders to a sheet with Telegram summary

Log each Shopify order in my Sales sheet and send me a Telegram message with the day's total at 9pm.

Sheet deadlines to calendar and Telegram

When a row in my Deadlines sheet is due tomorrow, add it to Google Calendar and send me a Telegram reminder.

Telegram entries emailed weekly

Every Friday, email my manager from Gmail a summary of the rows my team added to the sheet through Telegram this week.

Setup

Connect Google Sheets 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 Sheets

Spreadsheets

  1. In the ClickRuntime dashboard, open Connections and choose Google Sheets.
  2. Sign in with your Google account and allow access.
  3. Pick the spreadsheets the automation may use. It can't see any other file in your Drive.

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 Sheets and Telegram

Do I need my own Telegram bot?
Yes. You create one with BotFather in Telegram in a minute and save its token in your ClickRuntime dashboard. Messages then come from your bot, under the name you gave it.
Can it send to a group or a channel, not only to me?
Yes. Add your bot to the group or make it an admin of the channel, and it can post there. A list of chats in your sheet works too, for messages that go to several places.
Can I send things to the sheet from Telegram?
Yes. Messages, photos and voice notes you send to your bot can be turned into new rows, such as an expense from a receipt photo or a meal you logged.
Does it read the whole sheet every time?
It reads the tab and range you point it at. Keeping the list on its own tab, with a header row, makes it easy to add or remove items without touching the automation.
Can I query the sheet from Telegram?
Yes. A message to the bot can look up rows and reply with the answer.
Does each person need a Google account?
No. People only message the bot; the sheet is accessed through your Google connection.
Can it send charts?
It can send text summaries, and it can create a simple chart image and send it if you ask.

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