Telegram

Give your Clourou routines a Telegram bot to speak through, so the work they do lands in your pocket — a morning briefing, an alert the moment something changes, or a finished report dropped into a team channel — without you opening the app or your inbox.

What you can automate

• Morning briefing: Research your topics each weekday and post a tight summary to your Telegram before you're at your desk.
• Instant alerts: When a routine spots something — a new mention, a status change, a threshold crossed — have it ping your chat right away.
• Team channel updates: Post a scheduled digest or metrics roundup into a group or channel your bot belongs to.
• Deliver files: Send a generated report, chart, or export to a chat as an attachment by its link.

Connecting

In Telegram, message @BotFather, run /newbot, and copy the token it gives you. The token is all a bot needs to authenticate — but to actually send you a message it also needs a chat id: the destination. So message your new bot once, and it can read `get_updates` to see your chat id (or ask @userinfobot).

On the Connections page, add Telegram: paste your bot token and, in the second field, your default chat id. Routines then send to that chat by default, no per-routine setup. (Leaving the chat id blank works too — but then each routine has to specify one.)

One Telegram rule to know: a bot can only post to a chat that has already started it (sent it a message) or to a group/channel it's a member of — it can't message a stranger or read your other chats. There are no credits to buy either — the Telegram Bot API is free for the handful of messages a routine sends.