Telegram node
Use the Telegram node to automate work in Telegram (opens in a new tab) and integrate Telegram with other applications. n8n has built-in support for a wide range of Telegram features, including getting files as well as deleting and editing messages.
On this page, you'll find a list of operations the Telegram node supports and links to more resources.
Credentials: Refer to Telegram credentials for guidance on setting up authentication.
Operations
- Chat operations
- Get up-to-date information about a chat.
- Get Administrators: Get a list of all administrators in a chat.
- Get Member: Get the details of a chat member.
- Leave a chat.
- Set Description of a chat.
- Set Title of a chat.
- Callback operations
- Answer Query: Send answers to callback queries sent from inline keyboards (opens in a new tab).
- Answer Inline Query: Send answers to callback queries sent from inline queries.
- File operations
- Get File from Telegram.
- Message operations
- Delete Chat Message.
- Edit Message Text: Edit the text of an existing message.
- Pin Chat Message for the chat.
- Send Animation to the chat.
- For use with GIFs or H.264/MPEG-4 AVC videos without sound up to 50 MB in size.
- Send Audio file to the chat and display it in the music player.
- Send Chat Action: Tell the user that something is happening on the bot's side. The status is set for 5 seconds or less.
- Send Document to the chat.
- Send Location: Send a geolocation to the chat.
- Send Media Group: Send a group of photos and/or videos.
- Send Message to the chat.
- Send Photo to the chat.
- Send Sticker to the chat.
- For use with static .WEBP, animated .TGS, or video .WEBM stickers.
- Send Video to the chat.
- Unpin Chat Message from the chat.
Add bot to channel: To use most of the Message operations, you must add your bot to a channel so that it can send messages to that channel. Refer to Common Issues | Add a bot to a Telegram channel for more information.
Templates and examples
Related resources
Refer to Telegram's API documentation (opens in a new tab) for more information about the service.
n8n provides a trigger node for Telegram. Refer to the trigger node docs here for more information.
Common issues
For common errors or issues and suggested resolution steps, refer to Common Issues.