Keep up with Wayback captures in Telegram
A scheduled check can surface changes in the capture history of pages you care about, without relying on memory to revisit them.
Trigger
Recurring schedule
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Action
Send Message
Send a text message to a telegram chat using the bot api.
Why this helps
Following archived versions manually means remembering to check again and compare what changed.
- Receive periodic updates about a specified page's capture history.
- Keep monitoring results visible in a chosen Telegram conversation.
- Reduce the need to remember repeated manual checks.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Archive.org and Telegram once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation in Automations, New Automation, or tell Notis to create one in plain language.
- 3In one instruction, ask Notis to check the available Wayback captures for the specified page and send notable results to Telegram.
- 4Choose a recurring schedule and select where run reports should go.
- 5Test with one real page and confirm the update reports the dates and links that are available.
Questions about this workflow
Does this workflow guarantee a new capture will exist?
No. It can report the capture information available when it runs; a new capture is not guaranteed.
What does Notis need to monitor?
Provide the page or pages to check in the automation instruction.
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Do this · Action
Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Archive.org to Telegram. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Archive.org 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.
Archive.org and Telegram, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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