Send messages with a Telegram bot

domain: telegram.org · 4 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps

  1. Create bot via @BotFather, get token
  2. User must message the bot first (bots can't initiate DMs)
  3. Get chat_id from getUpdates or a webhook update
  4. POST /bot{token}/sendMessage with chat_id and text; parse_mode=MarkdownV2 or HTML for formatting

Known gotchas

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