Telegram trigger — strange webhook url

Dmitry_Vakhnenko · August 24, 2020, 8:21am

When I set up TelegramTrigger, I noticed that it generates a strange link for the webhook - https://n8n.example.com/webhook/{ UUID HERE}/webhook.

why is the word webhook duplicated here?

jan · August 24, 2020, 9:38am

Welcome to the community @Dmitry_Vakhnenko!

The short answer is: Because that is how it is named:

github.com

n8n-io/n8n/blob/master/packages/nodes-base/nodes/Telegram/TelegramTrigger.node.ts#L43

      
        
            		},
            		inputs: [],
            		outputs: ['main'],
            		credentials: [
            			{
            				name: 'telegramApi',
            				required: true,
            			},
            		],
            		webhooks: [
            			{
            				name: 'default',
            				httpMethod: 'POST',
            				responseMode: 'onReceived',
            				path: 'webhook',
            			},
            		],
            		properties: [
            			{
            				displayName: 'Updates',
            				name: 'updates',

The long answer is:
The first /webhook/ is how all webhook-URLs start (unless overwritten).
A unique-ID to make sure there is no collision
Then there is the second /webhook which simply got named like that on the node (link above). It could also have been /asdf but the name that got chosen was “webhook”. That is the same we did choose for all the Trigger-Nodes but really could have been anything.