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Retrieve the Bible book catalog from Telegram

Ask for the book list in Telegram and have Notis fetch it from Api bible.

Trigger

New Message Received

Triggered when your bot receives a new message in a private chat, group, or supergroup. To receive every message in a group, Privacy Mode must be disabled for the bot in BotFather.

Action

Get All Books

Tool to retrieve a list of all books in the bible. use when you need a catalog of every biblical book.

Why this helps

Finding a complete book list takes extra searching when planning a study or checking what a source covers.

  • Retrieve the full list of books when needed.
  • Make study planning easier from a chat prompt.
  • Keep a reusable catalog available in run reports.

Setup

Build it in a few focused steps.

  • 1Connect Telegram and Api bible to Notis once through the portal.
  • 2Create an automation from the portal or ask Notis to create it conversationally.
  • 3Use one prompt: When a Telegram message asks for the Bible book catalog, retrieve all books from Api bible and share the list in my run-report channel.
  • 4Choose Telegram New Message Received as the trigger and select a channel for reports.
  • 5Test by asking for the complete book list.

Questions about this workflow

When is this action useful?

Use it when someone needs the catalog of every biblical book, rather than a passage or section.

Does the list depend on a version?

The action retrieves all books. For a specific version's sectional breakdown, use the sections workflow.

When this happens · Trigger

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Supported Triggers and Actions

Notis builds workflows that link Telegram to Api bible. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.

Telegram triggers

Api bible actions

Recurring trigger

Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.

TriggerScheduled

Get All Books

Tool to retrieve a list of all books in the bible. use when you need a catalog of every biblical book.

ActionInstant

Webhook trigger

Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.

TriggerInstant

Get Bible by ID

Tool to retrieve details of a specific bible version by its id. use when you need full metadata after listing versions. example prompt: 'get metadata for bibleid de4e12af7f28f599-01'.

ActionInstant

New Message Received

Triggered when your bot receives a new message in a private chat, group, or supergroup. To receive every message in a group, Privacy Mode must be disabled for the bot in BotFather.

TriggerInstant

Get Section

Tool to retrieve detailed content for a single section by id. use after listing sections.

ActionInstant

New Channel Post

Triggered when a new post is published to a channel where your bot is an administrator.

TriggerInstant

Get Sections

Tool to retrieve a list of sections for a specific book in a bible version. use after obtaining the bible and book ids to view sectional breakdown.

ActionInstant

Callback Query Received

Triggered when a user taps an inline keyboard button attached to one of your bot's messages.

TriggerInstant

Get Supported Bible Versions

Tool to retrieve supported bible versions. use when you need to list all available bible translations.

ActionInstant

Message Edited

Triggered when a message in a chat your bot can see is edited by its sender.

TriggerInstant

Search Verses

Tool to search for verses containing a specified query within a version.

ActionInstant

New Chat Member

Triggered when a new member joins a group or supergroup the bot belongs to, including when the bot itself is added.

TriggerInstant

Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.

Telegram and Api bible, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.

When this happens · Trigger

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