Telegram Send Chat Bot

Questions
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Hello,
I hope you are doing great,
I just have a quick question, can we send messages to bots on telegram ? I have tried using the the sendMessage : Telegram but it is written, it is not possible sending messages to bots on telegram. Does someone know how can I make it happen ? Either using n8n or another way ?
Thank you for your comprehension

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Yes that is certainly possible.

If you provide your workflow we can have a look for what is going wrong
Use the ‘</>’ button and paste your workflow

The steps to make it work:

  1. create a chatbot using BotFather
    type. /newbot and follow the instructions

  2. Telegram SendMessage node will need the access token

  3. Telegram SendMessage node also needs your chat id
    You could find it using Telegram Bot Raw
    Within the JSON there is an id in ‘from’ / ‘in’

  4. Make sure you use https, so on local host use ngrok or otherwise

if this anwers your question then please hit the ‘solution’ button

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But, if I want to send a message to a bot on telegram that isn’t mine, therefore it isn’t possible as I don’t have the access token. For exemple if I want to send a message to a telegram crypto bot, lets take @TradeWiz_Solbot, it is possible, even if I have only the user_id ( that Telegram bot eaw gave me ) and not the access token ?

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If the bot is part of a group you should be able to send a message to the group, for which you then would nee the group chat id,

Please refer to the documentation for other options.

Usernames are only possible for public channels