system: notification provider: telegram introduced in v0.1

This provider allows you to configure your own bot to send out notifications directly to the Telegram group or personal channel.

To create a bot, first you need to add an existing bot BotFather to your contacts and use a /newbot command. As a response you should receive an auth token for your newly created bot, something like 110201543:AAHdqTcvCH1vGWJxfSeofSAs0K5PALDsaw.

If you forgot your auth token, you can always use /token command with BotFather to generate a new one.

Next step is to get a correct Chat ID. To do so, add your bot to a target group (or just message him if you want to send private messages) and open the following URL https://api.telegram.org/botYOUR_KEY/getUpdates e.g. https://api.telegram.org/bot110201543:AAHdqTcvCH1vGWJxfSeofSAs0K5PALDsaw/getUpdates

In the response you need to find an ID of a chat object in a message. Something like this:

Configuration options

Example

system: notification
provider: telegram
name: my place
token: "111111111:key"
chat: -1111