Start a CircleCI release build from Telegram
Put the release request where your team is already talking. Notis can start the matching CircleCI pipeline from your message.
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
Trigger Pipeline
Tool to trigger a new pipeline for the specified project. use when you need to start a build on a branch or tag programmatically.
Why this helps
Release intent gets buried in chat, then someone has to reopen CircleCI and manually start the build.
- Start a release build from a concise chat request.
- Keep project and branch or tag details with the original intent.
- Reduce the chance that a planned release waits on a manual pipeline start.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Telegram and CircleCI to Notis once in the portal.
- 2In Automations, create an automation with a prompt asking Notis to start the CircleCI pipeline for a release request, using the project and branch or tag stated in the message.
- 3Select Telegram New Message Received as the trigger and choose a channel for run reports.
- 4Test by sending one real release request with a project and branch or tag.
Questions about this workflow
What should the Telegram message include?
State that it is a release build request and include enough context for Notis to identify the CircleCI project and branch or tag.
Does this deploy the release?
It starts the CircleCI pipeline. What the pipeline does after that depends on your CircleCI configuration.
When this happens · Trigger
Do this · Action
Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Telegram to Circleci. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Telegram triggers
Circleci actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Get Job Artifacts
Tool to retrieve artifacts produced by a specific job. use after a job has completed to list its output files.
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Get Job Details
Tool to fetch details of a specific job within a project. use when you need status, timing, and executor information for a circleci job by its number.
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.
Get Pipeline Config
Tool to fetch pipeline configuration by id. use when you need the source or compiled yaml of a specific pipeline.
New Channel Post
Triggered when a new post is published to a channel where your bot is an administrator.
Get Test Metadata
Tool to fetch test metadata for a specific job. use when you need detailed test results, run times, and failure messages after a job completes.
Callback Query Received
Triggered when a user taps an inline keyboard button attached to one of your bot's messages.
Get User Information
Tool to retrieve information about a circleci user by their unique id. use when you need user profile details after obtaining the user id.
Message Edited
Triggered when a message in a chat your bot can see is edited by its sender.
List Pipelines for Project
Tool to list all pipelines for a specific project. use when you need to retrieve the pipelines for a project (e.g., to display recent runs on a dashboard).
New Chat Member
Triggered when a new member joins a group or supergroup the bot belongs to, including when the bot itself is added.
List Self-Hosted Runners
Tool to list available self-hosted runners. use when you need to retrieve all configured self-hosted runners for your organization.
List Workflows by Pipeline ID
Tool to list all workflows associated with a specific pipeline. use when you need to fetch or paginate through workflows by pipeline id.
Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
Telegram and Circleci, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
When this happens · Trigger
Do this · Action
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