Telegram

Use the Telegram node to automate work in Telegram and integrate Telegram with other applications. n8n has built-in support for a wide range of Telegram features, including getting files as well as deleting and editing messages.

On this page, you'll find a list of operations the Telegram node supports and links to more resources.

Credentials

Refer to Telegram credentials for guidance on setting up authentication.

Operations

• Chat operations

  • Get up-to-date information about a chat.

  • Get Administrators: Get a list of all administrators in a chat.

  • Get Member: Get the details of a chat member.

  • Leave a chat.

  • Set Description of a chat.

  • Set Title of a chat.

• Callback operations

  • Answer Query: Send answers to callback queries sent from inline keyboards.

  • Answer Inline Query: Send answers to callback queries sent from inline queries.

• File operations

  • Get File from Telegram.

• Message operations

  • Delete Chat Message.

  • Edit Message Text: Edit the text of an existing message.

  • Pin Chat Message for the chat.

  • Send Animation to the chat.

    • For use with GIFs or H.264/MPEG-4 AVC videos without sound up to 50 MB in size.

  • Send Audio file to the chat and display it in the music player.

  • Send Chat Action: Tell the user that something is happening on the bot's side. The status is set for 5 seconds or less.

  • Send Document to the chat.

  • Send Location: Send a geolocation to the chat.

  • Send Media Group: Send a group of photos and/or videos.

  • Send Message to the chat.

  • Send Photo to the chat.

  • Send Sticker to the chat.

    • For use with static .WEBP, animated .TGS, or video .WEBM stickers.

  • Send Video to the chat.

  • Unpin Chat Message from the chat.

  Add bot to channel

  To use most of the Message operations, you must add your bot to a channel so that it can send messages to that channel. Refer to Common Issues | Add a bot to a Telegram channel for more information.

  Templates and examples

Browse n8n-nodes-base.telegram integration templates or search all templates

Related resources

Refer to Telegram's API documentation for more information about the service.

n8n provides a trigger node for Telegram. Refer to the trigger node docs here for more information.

Common issues

For common errors or issues and suggested resolution steps, refer to Common Issues.