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Connect SerpApi to Telegram

SerpApi gives you live Google results, and Telegram puts a chat box in your pocket. Together they make a bot you can message a question, a ticker, a destination or a shop name, and get a useful answer built from what is on the web right now.
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Ideas

What you can do with SerpApi and Telegram

Telegram bots that search Google for you and reply with answers, posts, codes, plans and reports. These are ready-made starting points. Anything else you can describe works too.
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Send a topic to Telegram and get researched social posts

Message your bot a topic and get back a LinkedIn post and a post for X, written from what is being said about it on the web right now.

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Ask a Telegram bot and get answers with sources

Ask your bot any question and get a short answer based on live Google results, with the links it used.

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A Telegram assistant that searches the web when it needs to

Chat with your own assistant on Telegram that remembers the conversation and looks things up online when a question needs current information.

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Find promo codes for a shop from Telegram

Send a shop name to your bot and get a list of current discount codes found on the web, with what each one claims to offer.

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Plan a trip itinerary from a Telegram message

Tell your bot where and when you are going and get a day-by-day plan built from real places and events happening during your stay.

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Get a stock research summary from Telegram

Send a ticker to your bot and get a short research summary built from current price data and recent news about the company.

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Any other automation you can describe in words

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

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Build your own

Build any SerpApi and Telegram automation you can describe

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

Only send price alerts when the lowest price drops by over 10 percent.

Limit searches to 50 per day and tell me when the limit is reached.

Use cases

Why people connect SerpApi and Telegram

How the two apps work together

  • Messages to your Telegram bot arrive instantly through its webhook, or a schedule runs daily.
  • The script calls SerpApi for Google search, news, maps or shopping results.
  • It replies or sends alerts in Telegram.

  • People searching from chat

    A query to a Telegram bot returns Google results via SerpApi. Search from chat.

  • Creators researching posts

    A topic returns top results and an AI summary. Content starts with research.

  • Shoppers tracking prices

    Google Shopping results for a product are checked daily. Price drops are reported.

  • Local businesses watching rankings

    Daily search positions are sent to Telegram. Changes are seen.

More apps

SerpApi, 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.

Ranking log

Each day, check my keywords with SerpApi, log positions to my Google Sheet and send me changes on Telegram.

Summaries

When I send a query to my bot, get SerpApi results and summarise them with OpenAI.

Post findings

When I reply "post" to a research summary in Telegram, write an X post and publish it.

Setup

Connect SerpApi 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.

SerpApi

Data / Search results API

  1. Sign in at serpapi.com and open your dashboard.
  2. Open Your Private API Key (the manage-api-key page) and copy the key.
  3. In the ClickRuntime dashboard, open Connections & secrets and save the key as a SerpApi 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 SerpApi and Telegram

Does every message use a SerpApi search?
Most do, since the bot looks things up before answering. SerpApi counts each search against your plan, so a busy bot uses more searches; the personal assistant only searches when a question needs current information.
How fast does the bot reply?
Usually within a few seconds: one search, one AI step, then the reply. Longer jobs such as a full trip plan can take a little longer.
Can I keep the bot private?
Yes. The bot can check who sent each message and ignore anyone who is not on your list of allowed chats.
Which search engines can it use?
Any SerpApi engine, including Google web search, News, Maps, Events, Jobs and Finance. Each automation picks the ones that fit the job.
Can it search Google News?
Yes. SerpApi supports Google News results.
Can it search other countries?
Yes. Location and language can be set per search.
Can it search Maps?
Yes. SerpApi supports Google Maps results.

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