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Connect Telegram to YouTube

Telegram is where many creators and small teams get their alerts and chat with their own bots. Connecting it to YouTube puts new uploads, summaries and publishing updates in a chat on your phone, and lets you send a link to your bot and get something useful back.
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Ideas

What you can do with Telegram and YouTube

Video summaries on request, new-upload alerts, publishing confirmations and daily playlists, all in Telegram. These are ready-made starting points. Anything else you can describe works too.
The moment it happensAI

Send a YouTube link to Telegram and get a summary back

Share a YouTube link with your Telegram bot and it replies with a short summary and the key points.

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The moment it happensAI

Upload finished Shorts to YouTube and hear about it on Telegram

When your video tool finishes a Short, it goes up to YouTube with an AI-written title and Telegram tells you it is live.

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Every 30 minutes

Get new YouTube uploads from your favourite channels in Telegram

Every new video from the channels you follow is posted to your Telegram chat or channel with its title and link.

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On a scheduleAI

Publish videos from a Drive folder with AI titles and a Telegram ping

Drop a video into a Drive folder and it goes to YouTube with an AI-written title and description, with a Telegram message when it is live.

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Daily

Build a daily playlist from your favourite channels

Each morning a fresh YouTube playlist of the last day's videos from channels you choose is created, and the link lands in Telegram.

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DailyAI

Get a morning news digest from feeds and YouTube in Telegram

Each morning Telegram brings you a short AI digest of new videos and headlines on the topics you follow.

See how it works Your own logic

Any other automation you can describe in words

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

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Build your own

Build any Telegram and YouTube automation you can describe

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

Every 30 minutes, check five competitor YouTube channels and send me a Telegram message only when a new video gets over 10,000 views in its first day.

When I forward a YouTube link to my bot, reply with the three most useful moments and their timestamps instead of a full summary.

Use cases

Why people connect Telegram and YouTube

How the two apps work together

  • The script checks YouTube for new videos or comments every few minutes or on a schedule, since YouTube does not send webhooks for these events.
  • Messages sent to your Telegram bot reach a ClickRuntime trigger link right away through the bot's webhook.
  • Replies like a video link or an approval word in Telegram can start a YouTube action, such as fetching a transcript or publishing a video.

  • Creators get channel updates on their phone

    When a new comment, milestone or upload happens, a short message goes to a Telegram chat. The creator sees it without opening YouTube Studio.

  • Researchers follow channels without the YouTube feed

    New videos from a list of channels are posted to a Telegram group with an AI summary. The group reads the summary first and watches only what matters.

  • Community admins share uploads with their Telegram channel

    Each new public video is posted to the community's Telegram channel with the title and link. Members hear about uploads where they already talk.

  • Small teams approve uploads from Telegram

    The bot sends the title and thumbnail of a pending video and waits for a reply before publishing. The owner can approve while away from a desk.

More apps

Telegram, YouTube 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.

Log summarised videos to a sheet

When I send a YouTube link to my Telegram bot, reply with an AI summary and add the title, channel and summary as a row in my Watch Notes Google Sheet.

Save YouTube summaries to Notion from Telegram

When I send a YouTube link to my Telegram bot, create a Notion page in my Research database with the video title, link and key points.

Telegram-approved X posts for new videos

When my YouTube channel publishes a video, send me a draft X post on Telegram and post it on X only after I reply "ok".

Setup

Connect Telegram and YouTube 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.

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.

YouTube

Video / Social

  1. In Google Cloud Console, enable the YouTube Data API v3 for your project.
  2. Under Credentials, create an API key and restrict it to the YouTube Data API. In the ClickRuntime dashboard, save it as a secret on Connections & secrets.
  3. For channel actions, set up the OAuth consent screen with the https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube scope, then create a Web OAuth client with the redirect URI https://clickruntime.com/oauth/callback.
  4. In the ClickRuntime dashboard, open Connections, choose YouTube and enter your OAuth client ID and secret, then authorise your channel.

FAQ

Questions about connecting Telegram and YouTube

Do I need my own Telegram bot?
Yes. You create one in a couple of minutes by messaging BotFather in Telegram, then save its token as a secret in your ClickRuntime dashboard.
Can it post to a Telegram channel instead of a private chat?
Yes. Add your bot as an admin of the channel and use the channel's ID as the destination.
Does it need my YouTube login?
Only for automations that upload or change videos on your channel. Reading public videos uses a YouTube API key.
Can several people use the same bot?
Yes. Anyone in the chat or group can send it links, and every message goes to everyone in that chat.
Is there a limit on uploads?
YouTube's default daily quota allows around six uploads a day per project. Reading videos uses very little of it.
Can it read video transcripts?
It can use captions that the YouTube Data API returns for videos you own. For other channels, availability depends on the video and the caption source.
Can several YouTube channels post to one Telegram chat?
Yes. The script can watch a list of channel IDs and send all updates to one chat, or route each channel to a different chat.
Is there a delay between upload and the Telegram message?
Scheduled checks run every 5 minutes or slower, so the message arrives within one check interval of the video going public.

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