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Connect Telegram Bot to Claude and ChatGPT
Your private chats by QR code (Chat Automation) or your bot through the Bot API: search, replies.
- API key or app password
- 7 actions, 5 read-only
- Several accounts at once
Connect Telegram Bot Free plan, no card
How to connect
About 3 min · You create a bot with @BotFather and paste its token.
You need
- Telegram on your phone or computer
Steps
- Open @BotFather in Telegram and send /newbot (or /mybots to pick a bot you already have).Open @BotFather
- Send a name for the bot, then a username that ends in bot, for example acme_support_bot.
- Copy the token from BotFather’s reply: it looks like 123456789:AA…Paste into: Bot token
- Paste it into the form and click Connect. Manyplug checks the token and starts receiving messages.
- Want all your chats and groups? Connect the Telegram service instead: it logs in to your personal account with a QR code.
- A bot only sees chats where people wrote to it and cannot start a conversation.
- Your bot can also handle your personal chats: turn on Secretary Mode for it in @BotFather and add it under Settings → Chat Automation.
If something goes wrong
- The check says the bot token is wrong (Unauthorized)
- Copy the token again: send /mybots to @BotFather, pick the bot and tap API Token. If you tapped Revoke current token, use the new token.
- The bot gets no messages from a group
- Send /setprivacy to @BotFather, pick the bot and choose Disable. Then remove the bot from the group and add it again.
- The bot does not see a person’s messages
- The person has to open the bot and tap Start first: a bot cannot write to someone who never wrote to it.
Try asking
- What did people write to my bot today?
- Find customer questions about delivery from this week.
- Tell Anna in the bot chat that 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_bot_list_chats | Reads |
| Search messages Searches all chats or one chat by words, sender and dates. telegram_bot_search | Reads |
| Read a chat Latest messages of a chat; page back for older ones. telegram_bot_read_chat | Reads |
| What's new New messages since the last check, without repeats. telegram_bot_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_bot_send | Risky |
| Mark as read Marks every message of a chat as read. telegram_bot_mark_read | Makes changes |
| Attachment Downloads a file from a message; the AI can look at photos and listen to voice messages. telegram_bot_get_attachment | Reads |