Promote your Telegram channel or group

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1. 01

   Get a bot for your chat

   The simple way — our bot

   Add @teleseeker_bot to your chat:

   • In a group, add it as a plain member. Its privacy mode is off, so it reads every message of the group.
   • In a channel, add it and make it an administrator — a channel has no privacy mode, and only an administrator receives its posts.

   That is the whole step. The page of the chat goes live on its own and fills with the messages of the chat — there is nothing to press here and nothing to fill in.

   The chat needs a public username — the handle in its t.me link. A private group has no page to publish, so it cannot be connected.

   The advanced way — a bot of your own

   The bot is the key to everything on this page: one bot can hold as many chats as you like, and the connections you see here are the ones of your bot. Open @BotFather and send it /newbot if you have no bot yet — it answers with a token, a long string like 123456789:AAE1….

   The bot

   The bot's public @username — the handle in its t.me link.

   The bot token

   The token BotFather gave you. We keep it while your bot is connected, so the webhook stays up; disconnecting your last chat drops it.

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2. 02

   Add the bot to your chat

   What are you connecting? Pick the type — the steps below are the ones for it.

   A channel

   Add the bot to the channel as an administrator — it reads every post of it.

   A group

   The bot reads every message of the group — turn its privacy mode off first.

   • Add the bot to the channel as an administrator. Every permission on the list can be left off — change channel info, send welcome messages, manage messages, manage stories, add members, manage live streams, manage direct messages, add new admins, ban users.
   • An administrator of a channel receives every post of it, whatever the permissions say. The line Telegram adds under the list — "This admin will not be able to add new admins" — is what leaving everything off buys you.
   • The channel needs a public username — the handle in its t.me link.

   

   1. Open @BotFather and send it /setprivacy.
   2. Pick your bot — the collector bot you want to read the group with.
   3. Tap Group Privacy in the menu BotFather shows.
   4. Tap Turn off. BotFather answers that the privacy mode is off.
   5. Add the bot to the group again — the privacy mode reaches a bot only once it has joined the group after the change.

   

   • The group needs a public username — the handle in its t.me link.

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3. 03

   Connect it

   What are you connecting? The review below says what the connection is about.

   The chat

   The chat's public @username — the handle in its t.me link.

   The bot

   The type

   The chat

   Connecting a bot publishes this chat's messages. We collect what the bot receives and show the latest 20 messages on this entity's page at teleseeker.com — each with the name of the person who wrote it. The collection covers the messages sent from the moment of connecting, and stops as soon as the bot is removed from the chat.

   • We point your bot's webhook at teleseeker.com — that is where Telegram delivers its updates. A bot holds one webhook, so if it had one of its own we tell you before we take it over.
   • We keep your bot's token while it is connected, so the webhook stays up. Disconnecting your last chat drops the token and gives the webhook back to you.
   • The bot writes nothing in your chat — not in a group, not in a channel. It reads the messages and hands them to us, and that is all it does.

   I understand that this chat's latest 20 messages will be collected and published on teleseeker.com from the moment of connecting, and that my bot's webhook will point at teleseeker.com. Connect

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