How do I add a TG bot

(John Jackson) #21

We’re sorry for all the hassle. We have been struggling to get the Flowbot implementation to work reliably.

Right now, we’re in the process of retiring the Flowbot and asking users just to create a real Telegram bot and connect that up, it’s not too much more difficult. In time, we’ll introduce a test console inside the app so that users can test flows without needing to create a bot.

Can I ask you to follow our step-by-step guide to creating a Telegram bot?

I really am sorry you’ve spent so long trying to get our Flowbot working - although it’s early days for us we are trying to build a product that is solid, even though we still have a lot of functionality to build out. We want to avoid situations like this even so.

Really appreciate your interest in the product!

#22

Hi, I don’t want the bot to be public. Can this be done with a custom one?

(Kellsey Shaw) #23

Hi Thobu,

Currently, custom telegram bots are public but we are really interested in what you are doing so if you could tell us about your use case and what you intend to use the bot for and we’ll see if we can find a solution for you.

#24

I want to filter a private (no auth) rss feed and push the filtered items to Tg - for notification matters.
Update: our use a webhook instead of the RSS

(John Jackson) #25

Ah OK, actually that exact use case is something we’re working on. We’re planning functionality where anyone using your bot can subscribe to an RSS feed, and get notifications via the bot when something is posted.

Webhooks would be a natural next step on that too, but when we launch this it will probably be RSS/Atom only.

Here’s the details of that in our public roadmap: https://trello.com/c/lleWHv5g/230-feeds-service

About making bots private. You will see a Channel ID come through as an output on the New Message trigger. You can add a filter to the trigger and filter for the channel ID you get when you talk to the bot (i.e. filter on your own ID). This will be unique to you. Would that work for you?

#26

Need to read your suggestion a 2nd time tomorrow :wink: - Thanks anyway.