Plugins

Telegram

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Privacy notice

Please be aware Telegram bots are always public. Therefore anyone joining your Telegram bot will be able to see the messages sent.

## Setup Telegram Bot

1. Start a conversation with BotFather
2. Enter /newbot to start the bot creation process and follow all the steps
3. Note down your new bot's access token
4. Send request to Create plugin endpoint with the following body:

JSON

{
  "name": "Telegram",
  "config": {
    "token": <ACCESS TOKEN>
  }
}

5. Type /start in the conversion with your new bot
6. Setup some events

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Not receiving messages

Telegram bots are not allow to start conversations with users however, after Coinolio restarts it will try and reinitiate with the same conversion it was last in.
Unfortunately, if Redis is reset the conversation with the bot will need to be setup again by typing /start in the conversation.