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Automate Telegram

Turn your Telegram bot into something useful. Get alerts, reminders and news on your phone, have the bot answer, translate or summarise what people send it, run a support inbox and broadcasts, and keep your group welcoming and free of abuse. Describe what you want to your AI assistant, check what it will do, and it keeps running with your laptop closed.

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Create a ClickRuntime automation: have my Telegram bot reply to every message with a helpful answer and remember the last 10 messages of each chat.

Paste it into your assistant. It tells you what it will send or change before it runs live.

Ideas

What you can automate in Telegram

A bot that answers, translates and reminds, alerts and news that reach your phone, and groups and channels that run themselves. These are ready-made starting points. Anything else you can describe works too.
The moment it happensAI

Have your Telegram bot answer messages

Anyone who messages your bot gets a helpful reply straight away, and the bot remembers the last few messages.

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The moment it happensAI

Turn voice notes into text with a reply

Send your bot a voice note and get the transcript back with a short answer.

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Every 5-60 minutes

Get crypto price alerts on Telegram

Your phone buzzes when a coin makes a big move, not every time it ticks.

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Hourly

Post new articles to your Telegram channel

New posts from the sites you follow land in your channel with a one-line summary.

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The moment it happens

Read receipts you photograph

Send your bot a photo of a receipt and get the merchant, date and total back.

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The moment it happens

Generate images from a bot command

Type /img and a description, and your bot sends back a generated image.

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The moment it happensAI

Summarise any link with a bot command

Send /summary with a link and get a five-line summary of the page.

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Every 5-60 minutes

Get told when your site changes or goes down

Telegram tells you when a page's content changes or your site stops responding.

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On a schedule

Get a daily reminder on Telegram

The same nudge reaches your phone every morning, on time.

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The moment it happensAI

Translate messages you send your bot

Send your bot text in one language and get it back in another.

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The moment it happens

Get error alerts from your tools on Telegram

Any system that can send to a link can now alert you on your phone.

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The moment it happens

Run a support inbox and broadcasts through your bot

Messages to your bot reach your admin chat, you reply from there, and you can message everyone who started the bot.

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Welcome new members and remove abuse

New members get a welcome, and abusive messages are deleted with a note to you.

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Collects as they arrive, acts dailyAI

Get a daily summary of your Telegram group

Each evening you get what the group talked about, without reading every message.

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The moment it happens

Get an email when someone messages your bot

Every message to your bot reaches your inbox with who sent it.

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The moment it happensAI

Text your bot a reminder

Tell the bot what to remind you about and when, and it messages you at that time.

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Collects as they arrive, acts daily

Run a giveaway for your channel subscribers

Only real subscribers can enter, and a random winner is announced on the day you choose.

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Collects as they arrive, acts daily

Schedule Telegram channel posts from your bot

Send your bot "/at 18:00" with a post, and ClickRuntime publishes it to your Telegram channel at that time.

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On a schedule

Post a daily poll in a Telegram group

Each weekday at 9:00 your bot posts the same poll to your Telegram group, after closing yesterday's and posting its results.

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The moment it happens

Weekly email of new members in a Telegram group

Your bot records who joins and leaves your Telegram group, and every Monday you get an email listing them with the week's net change.

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The moment it happens

Weekly reading list by email from links sent to Telegram

Links you send or forward to your bot during the week arrive every Friday at 17:00 as one email with titles and a one-line summary each.

See how it works Your own logic

Any other automation you can describe in words

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

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Build your own

Build any Telegram automation you can describe

The ideas above are ready-made starting points, not a fixed list. Describe what Telegram should do 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 Telegram bot a voice note, transcribe it, turn it into a to-do list and send the list back to me.

When I send my Telegram bot a message starting with expense, add the amount and note as a row in my Expenses sheet in Google Sheets.

Every morning at 7, send me on Telegram an AI summary of yesterday's unread Gmail plus links to files added to my Shared folder in Google Drive.

Works with

Telegram with the apps you already use

Telegram is where you hear about things, and other apps are where the work is kept. Connect them so messages, files and alerts move between your bot and your sheets, inbox and notes.

Telegram works with hundreds of other apps

Name any of them when you ask your assistant, and your automation connects them. Over 248 apps are ready to go, and anything with an API works too.

  • Discord
  • WhatsApp Business
  • OpenAI
  • YouTube
  • Google Calendar
  • GitHub
  • Trello
  • Todoist
  • Stripe
  • Shopify
  • WordPress
  • Reddit
  • X
  • Typeform
  • OpenWeatherMap
  • Dropbox
  • ElevenLabs
  • Deepgram

Beyond chat

Have Telegram work when you're not in the chat

Connecting Telegram to ChatGPT or Claude lets you ask about it while you chat. ClickRuntime handles the part that should happen on its own: checks on a schedule and actions on each new event, set up from the same chat and running after you close it.

Setup

Connect Telegram

You connect Telegram with a token for your own bot, which you set up by chatting with @BotFather. It takes a minute and needs no approval.

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.

Good to know

Telegram limits that affect automations

  • A bot can only message people who have started a chat with it first, so each person needs to press Start once.
  • Telegram limits how fast a bot can send, roughly one message per second to each chat, so broadcasts to many users are spread out.
  • In groups, the bot only sees all messages if privacy mode is turned off in @BotFather. It can't read anything sent before it joined.
  • The bot acts as a bot, not as your personal account, so it can't read your private chats.
  • If you regenerate the token with /token in @BotFather, save the new one in the ClickRuntime dashboard.

FAQ

Questions about automating Telegram

What can ClickRuntime see in my Telegram?
Only what your bot sees: messages people send to it, and messages in groups and channels you add it to. It can't read your personal chats.
Does the bot reply straight away?
Yes. Telegram sends each new message to ClickRuntime as it arrives, so replies, translations and forwards happen within seconds.
Can it summarise a group chat?
Yes, if the bot is in the group with privacy mode turned off. It saves messages as they arrive and sends you a summary at the time you choose. It can't see messages from before it joined.
Can it handle voice notes and photos?
Yes, with your own OpenAI or similar key. Transcribing voice, reading receipts and generating images aren't included in ClickRuntime's built-in AI, so those automations use the key you provide.
Do I need AI for Telegram automations?
No. Reminders, uptime alerts, forwarding and broadcasts run without it. Chat replies, translation, summaries and moderation use the AI that comes with every ClickRuntime plan, so you don't need your own AI key for those.
Is this a Telegram connector for ChatGPT or Claude?
Not for chatting with Telegram data. A chat connector lets your assistant read and change Telegram while you're in the conversation. ClickRuntime is for the work that should happen without you: you set up an automation from the chat once, and it keeps running on a schedule or on each Telegram event.

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