Know your fundraising chat size before outreach
Get a simple membership check as part of your planning rhythm. Notis can retrieve the Telegram chat member count and send a concise update.
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
Planning outreach without a current audience count can leave teams guessing about reach.
- Check audience size without opening another tool.
- Add a membership signal to a regular planning routine.
- Share a simple count with the team.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Blackbaud and Telegram once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation in Automations, New Automation, and name the planning check.
- 3Tell Notis to retrieve the member count for the Telegram fundraising chat you identify and report the result to your chosen Telegram destination.
- 4Choose a notis_cron schedule and set where run reports should go.
- 5Test with one real chat and confirm the bot has the required administrator access.
Questions about this workflow
Does this action read Blackbaud donor records?
This workflow uses Telegram's chat member count action. Blackbaud is connected as the source app, but the count itself comes from Telegram.
Does the bot need special access?
The bot must be an administrator in the chat for the member count method to work.
Can this show who is in the chat?
No. This action returns a member count, not a list of participants.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Blackbaud to Telegram. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Blackbaud 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.
Blackbaud and Telegram, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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