Telegram¶

From Telegram, start a new chat with the bot @BotFather and run the following command /newbot
Answer the few questions you will be asked to set up your bot
Once finished, a token will be sent to you:

If you have already created a dedicated channel to receive GLPI notifications, add your bot to it.
Otherwise, create your own channel
add the newly created bot
Send a message in the channel created to initiate a conversation and generate the various IDs we will need.
From your browser, enter the following URL:

https://api.telegram.org/botmytoken/getupdates

Replace mytoken with the value of the token generated above

Note

Telegram bot URLs take the form https://api.telegram.org/bot{mytoken}

You should see a similar result:

"ok": true,
"result": [
    {
        "update_id": 816584684,
        "my_chat_member": {
            "chat": {
                "id": -541684658463,
                "title": "GLPI Ticket",
                "type": "channel"
            },
            "from": {
                "id": 1546610935,
                "is_bot": false,
                "first_name": "xxxxxxx",
                "last_name": "xxxxxxx"


           },
            "new_chat_member": {
                "user": {
                    "id": 7468746847,
                    "is_bot": true,
                    "first_name": "glpi",
                    "username": "xxxxxx_bot"

In the my_chat_member copy the ID value of the chat.

Warning

The negative sign - must also be copied