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Connect Telegram to Claude and ChatGPT
Your bot, and with Telegram Business your own chats: message search, replies.
- API key or app password
- 7 actions, 5 read-only
- Several accounts at once
Connect Telegram Free plan, no card
How to connect
A bot token from @BotFather. Takes about two minutes.
- Open @BotFather in Telegram and send /newbot (or /mybots if you already have a bot).Open @BotFather
- Pick a name and a username. BotFather replies with a token like 123456:ABC-…
- Paste the token into the form. The hub checks it and starts receiving messages.
- A bot only sees chats where people wrote to it and cannot start a conversation.
- To let the bot read group messages, turn off Group Privacy for it in @BotFather.
- With Telegram Premium the bot can also handle your personal chats: Settings → Telegram Business → Chatbots, pick the bot and allow it to reply. Replies are sent as you.
Try asking
- What did people write to the bot today?
- Find messages about delivery from this week.
- Tell Anna the invoice comes tonight.
Several accounts? Connect each one and give it a name, for example Work and Personal.
What the AI can do: 7 actions
Each action can be turned off per account, and changes can wait for your OK.
| Action | Access |
|---|---|
| List chats Telegram chats, most recent first, with unread counters. telegram_list_chats | Reads |
| Search messages Searches all chats or one chat by words, sender and dates. telegram_search | Reads |
| Read a chat Latest messages of a chat; page back for older ones. telegram_read_chat | Reads |
| What's new New messages since the last check, without repeats. telegram_whats_new | Reads |
| Send a message Writes to a chat through a queue: human-like pauses and typing, never twice. Files can be attached by link. A first message to someone new needs your OK. telegram_send | Risky |
| Mark as read Marks every message of a chat as read. telegram_mark_read | Makes changes |
| Attachment Downloads a file from a message; the AI can look at photos and listen to voice messages. telegram_get_attachment | Reads |