How to add an telegram bot to your hood
What is a telegram bot?
Telegram bots are Telegram accounts operated by software. In our case we
will show you how to add a bot for users to subscribe to, so they can send
messages into your hood system, which get distributed to the other
platforms. Also they can receive messages from other platforms
Example: You as a hood admin added the bot
@kibicara-my-hood to your hood. John wants to send a message to all hood
subscribers. He then uses his telegram account to subscribe to the bot
@kibicara-my-hood and sends his message to the bot. His message will be
distributed to the other platforms and Sandra who is subscribed to your
email hood bot gets John's message via email.
How to add a telegram bot to your hood?
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Download the telegram app
and create a telegram account for your hood if you don't have one.
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Start a conversation with the
@botfather bot by sending a message
with the content /start.
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Create a new bot by sending another message with the content
/newbot. Follow the instruction of the botfather, pick a
cool name for your bot when asked.
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The @botfather will give you a token (the line below
Use this token to access the HTTP API:). Copy it.
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Add the telegram bot here by clicking on
Add new platform connection!. Paste the token from the
botfather in the input that says Telegram API Token.
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Add a welcome message that users will see if they subscribe to your bot.
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Click Add telegram bot to add your telegram bot. Done!
Can I stop relaying telegram messages?
Yes, if you want to stop relaying telegram messages from a specific telegram
bot, just use the switch to the bot to stop relaying.