Track a Telegram community size for campaign planning
Add a simple scheduled audience size check to campaign planning, using the count Telegram returns for the supplied chat.
Trigger
Recurring schedule
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Action
Get Chat Members Count
Get the number of members in a chat. the bot must be an administrator in the chat for this to work.
Why this helps
Community size may be useful campaign context, but checking it manually adds another recurring task.
- Make a recurring audience check easier to remember.
- Bring a Telegram count into campaign planning context.
- Use the number Telegram returns rather than a guessed estimate.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect ActiveTrail and Telegram once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation in Automations, New Automation, and name it for the community size check.
- 3Describe the outcome in one instruction: retrieve the member count for the supplied Telegram chat and send the result with the supplied campaign context.
- 4Pick a recurring schedule and choose where run reports should go.
- 5Test with one real Telegram chat where the bot has the required admin access.
Questions about this workflow
Does the bot need special access?
The bot must be an administrator in the chat for this count method to work.
Does this send a message to ActiveTrail?
No. It checks Telegram and shares the result in Telegram; the campaign context must be supplied to the automation.
When this happens · Trigger
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link ActiveTrail to Telegram. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
ActiveTrail triggers
Telegram actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Answer Callback Query
Use this method to send answers to callback queries sent from inline keyboards. the answer will be displayed to the user as a notification at the top of the chat screen or as an alert.
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Delete Message
Delete a message, including service messages, with certain limitations.
Edit Message
Edit text messages sent by the bot.
Export Chat Invite Link
Generate a new primary invite link for a chat; any previously generated primary link is revoked. the bot must be an administrator in the chat for this to work and must have the appropriate administrator rights.
Forward Message
Forward messages of any kind. service messages can't be forwarded.
Get Chat Info
Get up to date information about the chat (current name of the user for one-on-one conversations, current username of a user, group or channel, etc.).
Get Chat Administrators
Get a list of administrators in a chat. on success, returns an array of chatmember objects that contains information about all chat administrators except other bots.
Get Chat History
Get chat history messages. note: this uses the getupdates method with specific parameters to retrieve historical messages.
Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
ActiveTrail and Telegram, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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