Drafts Directory: Telegram Bot Post

Action

Posted by David Blue, Last update over 2 years ago

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Send draft contents to a specified Telegram channel/group chat via the Telegram Bot API.

The URL of the result will be copied to the clipboard and inserted as a markdown-formatted hyperlink one line break below the cursor’s current position in the following format:

[chatname-messageid](messageURL)

Example Result

Setup

Upon first run, the action creates the Telegram Bot credential identifier, which requires both the numeric chat_id of the target group chat/channel (best obtained with the Rose bot, imo,) and a bot API token (which you can obtain from @botfather)

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Install

Steps

script

// setup and request credentials
let credential = Credential.create("Telegram Bot", "Enter your bot token and target chat id.");

credential.addTextField("chat", "Chat ID");
credential.addPasswordField("token", "Bot Token");
credential.authorize();

const chat = credential.getValue("chat");
const token = credential.getValue("token");

// make post
let endpoint = `https://api.telegram.org/bot${token}/sendMessage`;

let data = {
	"chat_id": chat,
	"text": draft.content,
	"parse_mode": "markdown",
};

// create and post HTTP request
var http = HTTP.create();

var response = http.request({
	"url": endpoint,
	"method": "POST",
	"data": data,
});

// log result post ID and setup template tags for insertion
if (response.success == true) {
	let d = JSON.parse(response.responseText);
	console.log("Posted to Telegram Message ID: " + d.result.message_id);
	draft.setTemplateTag("messageid", d.result.message_id);
	draft.setTemplateTag("chatalpha", d.result.chat.username);
}

else {
	console.log("Telegram Error: " + response.error);
	context.fail();
}

insertText

template

- [[[chatalpha]]-[[messageid]]](https://t.me/[[chatalpha]]/[[messageid]])

clipboard

template

https://t.me/[[chatalpha]]/[[messageid]]

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