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Use an edited message to fetch the right Hacker News item

If you pasted the wrong link, edit the message with the right one. Notis can fetch the corrected item so your follow-up stays on track.

Trigger

Message Edited

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

Action

Get Hackernews Item

Get a specific item from hacker news using its id. limits response size to prevent context overflow.

Why this helps

A wrong or incomplete reference can create extra messages, confusion, and a missed discussion follow-up.

  • Use the corrected reference without restarting the request.
  • Keep the intended item connected to the original discussion.
  • Reduce confusion from an outdated or mistaken link.

Setup

Build it in a few focused steps.

  • 1Connect Telegram and Hackernews to Notis once through the portal.
  • 2Create the automation in the portal or ask Notis conversationally to build it.
  • 3Tell Notis to fetch the Hacker News item referenced in an edited Telegram message and return a short context summary.
  • 4Select Telegram Message Edited as the trigger and choose a channel for run reports.
  • 5Test by editing a message to replace an incorrect item link with the correct one.

Questions about this workflow

Does it fetch the revised link?

The Message Edited trigger provides the updated message. In the prompt, instruct Notis to use the current reference in that message.

What if the edit contains no Hacker News reference?

Describe in the prompt that Notis should only fetch an item when a valid Hacker News reference is present.

When this happens · Trigger

Do this · Action

Supported Triggers and Actions

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

Telegram triggers

Hackernews actions

Recurring trigger

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

TriggerScheduled

Get Hackernews Frontpage

Get the frontpage posts of hacker news.

ActionInstant

Webhook trigger

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

TriggerInstant

Get Hackernews Item

Get a specific item from hacker news using its id. limits response size to prevent context overflow.

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 Latest Hackernews Posts

Get the latest posts from hacker news based on optional filters. results can be limited using the size parameter.

ActionInstant

New Channel Post

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

TriggerInstant

Get Hackernews Today Posts

Get today's posts from hacker news.

ActionInstant

Callback Query Received

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

TriggerInstant

Get Hackernews User

Get a specific user from hacker news using their username.

ActionInstant

Message Edited

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

TriggerInstant

Search Hackernews Posts

Get relevant posts from hacker news based on a full-text query and optional filters. results can be limited using the size parameter.

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 Hackernews, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.

When this happens · Trigger

Do this · Action

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