Telegram integration

Integrating Buddy with Telegram will let you send automatic messages on finished builds and deployments to individual profiles, announcement channels, and team groups. For that we use a special bot which publishes messages on your behalf.

Pipeline example with Telegram as a notification action

Setting up Telegram integration

1. Select the Telegram action from the Notifications section of Buddy actions. Notification actions
2. You will be prompted to invite Buddy Telegram Bot to send messages to the selected channel: Telegram integration
   • If you want the bot to send messages to your private channel, select Send Private Message. The action will automatically add buddybot to your contacts: Sending private message to the bot
   • If you want the bot to send messages to a channel or a group, you'll need to invite @BuddyTelegramBot to your channel/group and paste the provided string: Integrating Buddy with Telegram Bot
3. Once the bot is added, click the Telegram action again to add it to the pipeline. The default message contains the ID of the execution, pipeline name, and invoker details. You can choose between Markdown and HTML formatting: Telegram action configuration

You can add more Telegram channels, by clicking +Add another Telegram account in the Telegram chat selection box. Adding more telegram accounts