Telegram

luftflow works through a Telegram bot your team owns. It can:

• Send a message from the bot to a chat, such as the person who just wrote to it.
• Start a workflow when someone messages the bot, with their chat, their name and what they wrote.

A bot can write only to people who have messaged it first, or to groups it was added to.

The bot

Message @BotFather on Telegram, send /newbot, and follow its questions. It answers with the bot's token, such as 123456:ABC-DEF…. Paste it into Connectors → Telegram. Use a separate test bot for staging.

Telegram names a bot only by putting its token in each call's address. luftflow records calls with the token's name in place of the token, so it never shows up in Traffic, a run's record or a log.

Starting a workflow when someone messages the bot

Choose Someone messages the bot on Telegram under Change how it starts, then follow Set it up in Telegram. Choose a webhook secret, save it on the setup page, then point the bot at luftflow by opening the setWebhook address the setup page describes in a browser. Telegram sends the secret with every message, and a message delivered twice never starts two runs.