Review today's stories around your current focus
When today's priority changes, send the topic to Telegram. Notis can review today's Hacker News posts and return a short list of relevant items.
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 Today Posts
Get today's posts from hacker news.
Why this helps
Broad news feeds make it hard to find the few stories relevant to today's priorities.
- Tie a news check to the work that matters today.
- Reduce noise by asking for topic-specific results.
- Start with a concise list instead of browsing the entire feed.
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.
- 3Prompt Notis to review today's Hacker News posts whenever a focus topic arrives in Telegram and return only relevant stories with short context.
- 4Choose Telegram New Message Received as the trigger and select where run reports appear.
- 5Test with one of today's work priorities.
Questions about this workflow
Can I change the topic each time?
Yes. Send the current topic in the triggering Telegram message and tell Notis to use that message as its focus.
Will it return every post from today?
Ask Notis in the prompt to include only stories relevant to the topic and summarize the selected results.
When this happens · Trigger
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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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