How toNotification channels
Connect Telegram notifications
Send LoudPixel citation alerts to Telegram via your own bot. Takes about 5 minutes including chat-ID lookup.
Steps
- Create the bot. Message @BotFather →
/newbot→ follow the prompts. Copy the bot token — format123456789:ABC-DEF1234…. Treat it like a password. - Open a chat. Send your new bot any message (or add it to a group and post there). Telegram bots can't message you until you message them first.
- Get the chat ID. Visit
https://api.telegram.org/bot<YOUR_TOKEN>/getUpdatesin a browser and readresult[0].message.chat.id.- Personal chat → positive number (e.g.
123456789) - Group / channel → negative number (e.g.
-1001234567890)
- Personal chat → positive number (e.g.
- Paste into LoudPixel. Account → Notifications → toggle Telegram on → paste Bot token and Chat ID → Save → Send test.
Troubleshooting
getUpdatesreturns an empty result — send the bot another message and reload; updates expire after 24 hours.- Test fails for a group — make sure the bot is still a member of the group, and use the full negative ID including the
-100prefix. - Token pasted with the bot name — the token is only the
digits:letterspart, nothing else.