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Connect Slack to Telegram

Teams often use Slack at work and Telegram on the go, or have customers and partners on Telegram. Connect the two so alerts, digests and reminders reach both, and messages sent to a Telegram bot can be escalated to your team in Slack.
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Ideas

What you can do with Slack and Telegram

Alerts, digests and reminders sent to Slack and Telegram, plus Telegram requests escalated to Slack. These are ready-made starting points. Anything else you can describe works too.
The moment it happens

Post GitHub pushes, pull requests and issues to Slack and Telegram

Activity from all your GitHub repositories appears in one Slack channel and on your Telegram, as it happens.

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The moment it happens

Send error and status alerts to Slack and Telegram

Any failure or status change sent to your trigger link reaches both Slack and Telegram, with repeats filtered out.

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Every 5 minutes

Get Slack and Telegram alerts when your websites go down

Your websites are checked every 5 minutes, and you hear in both Slack and Telegram when one goes down or comes back.

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The moment it happensAI

Answer Telegram bot messages and escalate urgent ones to Slack

Every message to your Telegram bot gets an instant reply, and complaints or urgent requests are posted to your Slack support channel.

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Collects as they arrive, acts dailyAI

Turn notes sent to a Telegram bot into meeting minutes in Slack

Jot notes to your Telegram bot during the day's meetings and get tidy minutes with action items posted to Slack at 6pm.

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DailyAI

Get a daily news digest in Telegram and Slack

Each morning a short digest of the top news on your topic arrives in your Telegram chat and your Slack channel.

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Every 15 minutes

Get alerts when Bitcoin or Ethereum drops past your threshold

You get one message in Telegram and Slack when Bitcoin or Ethereum falls more than your chosen percentage in 24 hours.

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DailyAI

Get a daily digest of new releases for the tools you use

Each morning, new GitHub releases for the repositories you follow are summarised and sent to Slack and Telegram.

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The moment it happens

Announce subscriptions, cancellations and failed payments in Slack and Telegram

Every new subscription, cancellation and failed payment is posted to your revenue channel in Slack and sent to you on Telegram.

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Every 5 minutes

Get task reminders on both Slack and Telegram

Reminders you set arrive in Slack and on Telegram at the time you chose, so you see them at your desk or on your phone.

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Any other automation you can describe in words

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

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More ideas

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Post team birthday greetings in Slack and Telegram

On each teammate's birthday, a greeting is posted in your Slack and Telegram channels in the morning.

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Build your own

Build any Slack and Telegram automation you can describe

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

Forward Slack messages that mention me to Telegram only outside 9am to 6pm on weekdays, and batch the rest into an evening digest.

When a message arrives in our Telegram client group, have AI decide if it needs action and post only those to Slack #clients with a one-line summary.

Use cases

Why people connect Slack and Telegram

How the two apps work together

  • Slack events such as new messages, mentions or reactions reach a ClickRuntime trigger link.
  • The script forwards matching messages through your Telegram bot to a chat or group.
  • Messages sent to the bot reach a trigger link through the Telegram Bot API webhook and are posted to Slack.

  • Urgent work alerts on a personal phone

    Founders and on-call staff get selected Slack messages, such as mentions or posts in #incidents, in Telegram.

  • Contractors who use Telegram

    Teams working with contractors or clients on Telegram bridge a Telegram group into a Slack channel.

  • Field updates into the team workspace

    Field staff send photos and notes to a Telegram bot, and they appear in a Slack channel for the office.

  • Same alert in both places

    Ops teams send monitoring alerts to Slack for the team and Telegram for the person on call.

More apps

Slack, 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.

PagerDuty incidents to Slack and Telegram

When a PagerDuty incident triggers, post it in Slack #incidents and send it to my Telegram.

Field reports to Slack and a sheet

When a field worker sends a photo to our Telegram bot, post it in Slack #field and log it in my Field Reports sheet.

Large payments to Slack and Telegram

When a Stripe payment over $1,000 succeeds, post it in Slack #sales and send me a Telegram message.

Setup

Connect Slack 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.

Slack

Team chat

  1. At api.slack.com/apps, create a new app from scratch in your workspace.
  2. Under OAuth & Permissions, add the bot scopes the automation needs, such as chat:write, channels:read and channels:history.
  3. In the ClickRuntime dashboard, open Connections, choose Slack and enter your app's details, then install it to your workspace.
  4. In each channel the automation should use, type /invite @your-app-name.

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 Slack and Telegram

What do I need to post to Telegram?
A Telegram bot, created with BotFather, added to your chat or channel. Its token is saved as a secret in your ClickRuntime dashboard.
Can messages to my Telegram bot reach Slack?
Yes. Messages sent to your bot can be posted to a Slack channel, so your team can pick them up there.
Can I send urgent alerts to Telegram only?
Yes. Each automation can send to both, or route messages by importance, such as urgent alerts to Telegram for whoever is on call.
Will the same alert be sent repeatedly?
No. Alerts are sent when something changes, not on every check.
Can I reply from Telegram into Slack?
Yes. A reply to the bot reaches a trigger link and the script posts it to the Slack channel or thread.
Does it forward files and images?
It can, within each app's size limits. The script downloads the file and uploads it to the other app.
Can it post as me in Slack?
Messages are posted by the ClickRuntime Slack app by default. The script can show the original sender's name in the message.

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