Every 15 minutes

Get a Telegram and SMS alert when crypto prices drop

When Bitcoin or Ethereum falls past the drop you set over 24 hours, you get one alert on Telegram and by text.

Runs: Every 15 minutes
Apps: Telegram, Twilio
AI: Not needed
Access: Telegram bot; Twilio messaging

Send this to your assistant

Create a ClickRuntime automation: every 15 minutes, check Bitcoin and Ethereum prices. If either has dropped more than 8% in 24 hours, alert me on Telegram and by SMS, once per drop.

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

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Why use it

Why teams use this automation

Someone holding crypto alongside a day job can't watch charts all day, and price apps send so many notifications that the important one gets swiped away. A sharp fall is the moment they actually want to look, whether to buy more or to review their position.

This checks prices every few minutes against the drop you care about. When it crosses the line you get one Telegram message and one text, and nothing more until the price recovers and falls again.

What you get out of it

Only the moves you care about
You set the threshold, so normal daily swings stay quiet and a real drop gets through.
Two channels for an important alert
An SMS reaches you even with chat notifications muted or no data signal.
One alert per drop
Once you've been told, it waits until the price recovers before alerting again, so a long slide doesn't fill your phone.
Your own rules, not an exchange's
The check runs on public price data, separate from any exchange account, so nothing can trade or move funds.

How it works

What happens, step by step

Every 15 minutes, ClickRuntime checks the 24-hour price change for Bitcoin and Ethereum.
If a coin has fallen further than your threshold, it sends you a Telegram message and a text.
It remembers that it has alerted, so you hear once per drop rather than every 15 minutes.
When the price recovers above the threshold, the alert resets for next time.

Before it runs live

Connect Telegram
Connect Twilio

What you get

RunsEvery 15 minutes

Get a Telegram and SMS alert when crypto prices droptoday, 9:00Succeeded

Telegram · Price alertsEthereum is down 9.2% in 24h, now $2,310

Build your own

Need it to work differently?

This template is a starting point. Copy the prompt and change it, or describe a different automation from scratch, with your own conditions, more apps or an AI step. 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.

Changes you can ask for

Run it at a different time, more or less often, or only on weekdays
Add an AI step, for example to summarize, sort or draft a reply
Add another app, for example also send it to Slack
Combine it with other Telegram and Twilio steps into one automation

Under the hood

The code that runs this automation

This is the Python script that runs each time the automation starts. Your AI assistant writes it for you when you send the prompt, and you allow each step in your assistant. To change how the automation works, describe the change to your assistant and it updates the script for you. For every function it can use, see the script reference.

price_drop_alert_via_telegram_and_sms.pyexample

from clickruntime import on_trigger, credentials, http, state
from twilio.rest import Client

THRESHOLD = -8.0

@on_trigger
def run(event):
    prices = http.get("https://api.coingecko.com/api/v3/simple/price",
                      params={"ids": "bitcoin,ethereum", "vs_currencies": "usd", "include_24hr_change": "true"}).json()
    alerted = state.get("alerted") or {}
    alerts = []
    for coin, p in prices.items():
        dropped = p["usd_24h_change"] <= THRESHOLD
        if dropped and not alerted.get(coin):
            alerts.append(f"{coin.title()} is down {p['usd_24h_change']:.1f}% in 24h, now ${p['usd']:,.0f}")
        alerted[coin] = dropped
    if alerts:
        text = "\n".join(alerts)
        token = credentials.secret("TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN")
        http.post(f"https://api.telegram.org/bot{token}/sendMessage", json={"chat_id": "123456789", "text": text})
        sms = Client(credentials.secret("TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID"), credentials.secret("TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN"))
        sms.messages.create(to="+15550100", from_="+15550199", body=text)
    state.set("alerted", alerted)
    return {"alerts": len(alerts)}

FAQ

Common questions

Which prices does it use?

A public price feed for each coin's 24-hour change in US dollars. You can switch to another currency or add coins in the prompt.

Can I get an alert for rises too?

Yes. Ask for a separate threshold for rises and the same one-alert-per-move rule applies.

Does it ever buy or sell for me?

No. It only reads prices and sends messages. Any decision about your holdings stays with you.

What permissions does it need?

Telegram bot; Twilio messaging. Nothing else in your accounts is used.

Does it need AI?

No. It runs without AI, so it doesn't use your plan's AI allowance.

How many runs does it use?

One run each time it runs (every 15 minutes). Checks that find nothing to do and stop right away aren't counted.

Can I change how it works?

Yes. Describe the change to your AI assistant, for example a different schedule, channel or filter. It updates the automation, tests it and tells you what changed.

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