From 8f4690e72ec25b9a8f6b4bfcc418e02385398de6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Fabian Affolter Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2017 13:13:21 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Add chat bot (picked from #1755) --- source/_components/notify.telegram.markdown | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/source/_components/notify.telegram.markdown b/source/_components/notify.telegram.markdown index 26a771c1c26..6145e24ee0f 100644 --- a/source/_components/notify.telegram.markdown +++ b/source/_components/notify.telegram.markdown @@ -20,7 +20,9 @@ The requirements are: - You need a [Telegram bot](https://core.telegram.org/bots). Please follow those [instructions](https://core.telegram.org/bots#6-botfather) to create one and get the token for your bot. Keep in mind that bots are not allowed to contact users. You need to make the first contact with your user. Meaning that you need to send a message to the bot from your user. - The `chat_id` of an user. -The quickest way to retrieve your `chat_id` is visiting [https://api.telegram.org/botYOUR_API_TOKEN/getUpdates](https://api.telegram.org/botYOUR_API_TOKEN/getUpdates) or to use `$ curl -X GET https://api.telegram.org/botYOUR_API_TOKEN/getUpdates`. Replace `YOUR_API_TOKEN` with your actual token. +To retrieve your `chat_id`, contact any of the Telegram bots created for this purpose (@myidbot, @get_id_bot) + +The quickest way to retrieve your `chat_id` is visiting [https://api.telegram.org/botYOUR_API_TOKEN/getUpdates](https://api.telegram.org/botYOUR_API_TOKEN/getUpdates) or to use `$ curl -X GET https:/api.telegram.org/botYOUR_API_TOKEN/getUpdates`. Replace `YOUR_API_TOKEN` with your actual token. The result set will include your chat ID as `id` in the `from` section: