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Hello, I see there is a Telegram Bot app. Is it different from a traditional account ?
Good question. In general you’ll see this pattern across Pipedream apps.
Slack vs Slack Bot, Discord vs Discord Bot, Telegram vs Telegram Bot.
The “native” option is the official Pipedream bot managed on that service. This is usually the easiest option to get started with. You don’t have to create your own bot on the service, and you can just get started using actions and triggers.
However there are cases when you want to publish your own Slack, Discord or Slack’s marketplace. In that case, you’ll need to create your own bot under your account on those services.
The Bot versions of these apps give more flexibility, since you’ll have your own definition of the bot under your account.
But there’s just a bit more set up involved vs the “native” apps.
Thanks. In my case I need a “New message published on thread” trigger on Telegram app. This thread is not mine, soo I guess I cannot connect a bot to it.
Yes, I believe you’ll need to have admin rights to add a bot to a particular channel before it can read threads.
FYI I don’t believe there’s an alternative for Telegram specifically
Ah that’s right. You have to register your own Telegram bot right?
I see. But I’ll need the admin approbation to add the bot to a channel anyway !?
That’s correct. Only admins of a channel have the ability to add bots