Deliver recurring Census reports as Telegram documents
Put a requested report file in the Telegram conversation where your team can find it.
Trigger
Recurring schedule
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Action
Send Document
Send general files (documents) to a telegram chat using the bot api.
Why this helps
A recurring report can be hard to locate when it stays in a separate research workflow from the people who need to review it.
- Bring an available report file into Telegram on a regular schedule.
- Pair the report with a short note about its coverage.
- Reduce manual downloading and forwarding steps.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Census bureau and Telegram once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation in Automations, or tell Notis in plain language from any channel.
- 3Describe the requested report, its coverage, and that an available report document should be sent to Telegram with a short note.
- 4Pick a recurring schedule and choose where run reports should go.
- 5Test with one real report request and verify that a document is returned and delivered.
Questions about this workflow
Will this always produce a document?
Only when the Census request returns an available report file that can be sent. If it returns data only, ask for a text summary instead.
Can the message explain the report?
Yes. Ask Notis to include a short note describing the returned report's geography and period when those details are available.
What starts the workflow?
A recurring Notis schedule starts it; the Census bureau integration has no listed trigger event.
When this happens · Trigger
Do this · Action
Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Census bureau to Telegram. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Census bureau 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.
Census bureau and Telegram, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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