🤖 Telegram (Bot-First)

Bring Telegram bots into your workflow. This asset adds bot-connected cards to your Boards so conversations and automations live in one place — and includes a ready-to-use board that serves files on demand.

🧠 What is this?

A lightweight bridge between your Telegram bot and Boards: send messages/media, receive incoming texts, and control who can talk to your bot.

🧩 Cards added

• - Telegram connector – set TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN and TELEGRAM_BOT_USERNAME
• - Last received message – shows the latest text your bot received
• - Send message – post text to a chat ID
• - Send photo – send an image (URL or local path)
• - Send file – send any document
• - Allowed chats – whitelist chat IDs the bot will accept

📦 Included example board: Telegram ↔ Files Bot

A minimal board that listens for /files <filename> and sends the requested file from data/public.

How it works

• - On every incoming message, it refreshes the file list from data/public.
• - If a message starts with /files <filename>:
  • - Checks if <filename> exists in data/public.
  • - If yes → sends the file.
  • - If no → replies with "File does not exist."

Usage

/files <filename>

Example: /files vento-logo.png

Notes: exact filename match (case-sensitive). Folder scanned: data/public.

⚙️ Setup (1-min)

1. - Create a bot with @BotFather → get the token and username
2. - Open the Telegram connector card → paste both keys
3. - (Optional) Add chat IDs in Allowed chats
4. - (Optional) Place files in data/public to use the example board

Your bot is now connected to your Boards.