Get contributor context for a Hacker News discussion
When a contributor's perspective matters, send their Hacker News username to Telegram and have Notis fetch the profile for a quick review.
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 Hackernews User
Get a specific user from hacker news using their username.
Why this helps
Checking who is behind a comment interrupts a discussion review and often gets deferred.
- Look up a specific contributor from the discussion you are reviewing.
- Keep profile context close to the conversation that prompted it.
- Avoid repeating manual username searches.
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 to set it up conversationally.
- 3Prompt Notis to retrieve the Hacker News user profile for a username explicitly provided in each relevant Telegram message and summarize the public profile details.
- 4Select Telegram New Message Received as the trigger and choose where run reports should go.
- 5Test with a known Hacker News username.
Questions about this workflow
What information does this retrieve?
The action retrieves a specific Hacker News user profile. Ask Notis to summarize only relevant details returned by that lookup.
Does it search for usernames automatically?
The prompt should specify how the username is supplied, such as an explicit name in the Telegram message.
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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.
Get Hackernews Frontpage
Get the frontpage posts of hacker news.
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Get Hackernews Item
Get a specific item from hacker news using its id. limits response size to prevent context overflow.
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 Latest Hackernews Posts
Get the latest posts from hacker news based on optional filters. results can be limited using the size parameter.
New Channel Post
Triggered when a new post is published to a channel where your bot is an administrator.
Get Hackernews Today Posts
Get today's posts from hacker news.
Callback Query Received
Triggered when a user taps an inline keyboard button attached to one of your bot's messages.
Get Hackernews User
Get a specific user from hacker news using their username.
Message Edited
Triggered when a message in a chat your bot can see is edited by its sender.
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.
New Chat Member
Triggered when a new member joins a group or supergroup the bot belongs to, including when the bot itself is added.
Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
Telegram and Hackernews, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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