Add Telegram bot to the group. Telegram administrators and signature assignment

Telegram is the most progressive and functional messenger today. This program was developed by a team of VKontakte creators under the leadership of Pavel Durov.

In addition to communicating with people and sharing photos, the user is provided with a huge number of opportunities. In this program, many media or famous people create their own channels through which people can follow the most current news. The program also has the ability to add special accounts that can perform various functions. You will learn about this opportunity from this article.

How to add a bot to a Telegram group?

First, let's define what a bot is. These are automated programs that are presented in the form of a chat. They perform monotonous functions depending on their purpose. The chat is controlled by special commands.

Bots for Telegram groups are created directly in the program itself. To do this you need to follow these steps:

How to attach to any chat?

Telegram groups are chats for several people. Each chat has the ability to add unlimited amount such profiles. Let's consider:

• The first step is to find the required account in the search using the @ sign;
• To add, send an invitation to the chatbot group;
• If the creator has not blocked the ability for others to add to the chat, the bot will join your group.

Now you know how to create a chatbot in Telegram and add it to groups. The whole process takes no more than two minutes, so understanding the functionality and creating groups is not difficult. It is much more difficult to configure a chatbot with the necessary functions. But we'll talk about this in another article.

What are “Bots for Telegram”? These are special assistant programs that can be used in Telegram, a well-known messenger. They allow you to search necessary information on the Internet very quickly and without tedious registrations on sites. Through the bot you can find an interesting game, news, check exchange rates, find and download a book, or check message statistics and much more.

How to use bots

To use a particular service provided by a specific bot, you need to write it in the messenger chat, that is, connect it to your chat. It’s even more convenient to immediately add him to your contacts list and contact him for help at any time, creating a new dialogue with him. You will also need to enter some other information (for example, to produce a thematic joke, you need to describe its topic).

After the desired bot is selected, write “/start” in the chat with it, then the usual chat dialogue will take place: the bot may ask you to clarify some information, or it will write what other commands you can enter.

List of bots

Below is a catalog of popular bots for Telegrams, including in Russian:

• @delorean_bot - sends a reminder about an important event for the future,
• @ya - Yandex search engine bot. This bot is worth adding to your “Favorites”
• @meduzaprobot - with him the news will always be with you,
• @temp_mail_bot - provides an e-mail for registration for a time, which will be deleted after ten minutes,
• @storebot is a “shop” that contains interesting and useful bots for every taste,
• @bot_gadalka - internet fortune teller,
• @pollbot - adds a questionnaire in the chat with the ability to enter several possible answers to choose from,
• @hangbot - game of "Hangman" in the messenger,
• @pikabubestbot - will provide the funniest posts from Pikabu.ru,
• @foodsearchbot - suggests places for a “snack”,
• @krestikinolikibot - tic-tac-toe game
• @movie_bot - movie guide,
• @misis_bot - you can find educational materials from the library of the research university "MISiS",

• @grammarnazibot - fixes errors,
• @wolframbot - solves equations,
• @topdf_bot - converting texts and pictures into PDF format,
• @dict_bot - translates from English into Russian without additional actions on your part,
• @ytranslatebot is also a translator bot, but from other languages,
• @filesbot - you can use it to save and send files between users,
• @ImageSearchBot - working on photo search,
• @Bcodebot - here are all the statements of Bender (from the cartoon "Futurama"),
• @BonAppetit_bot, @mycookbot - for those who love to cook deliciously,
• @zombiebot is a zombie bot that simulates communicating with zombies,
• @K908Bot - helps transfer money from a card,
• @nationalgeographic_bot - here are the best photos National Geographic from around the world. Choose a topic and watch!
• @GetMusicBot - searches for top music,
• @BotogramBot - creating bots, with this utility you can contact the creators of bots with a request to produce a new “assistant”,
• @flibustamirrorbot, @freebooksbot, @mybookbot - bots for searching for books, including on Flibusta. Choose the author, the desired book and format - and that’s it!

Groups in the Telegram application are structured quite democratically, and discussion participants can invite friends, change their profile name or photo. Recently, the developers decided to create the ability to add a Telegram administrator.

Administration system

Telegram administrators perform the functions of moderators; it is also possible to use a bot instead of a moderator.

The use of moderation was caused by an increase in the number of regular subscribers. Moderators can choose and set the rules by which the community will function. By default, the settings can be managed by all participants, but users can also set their own managers and add Telegram administrator signatures for convenience.

To assign a Telegram administrator, you need to click on its name in the channel at the top:

After that, go to the group settings menu:

Then you need to click on “Assign an administrator”:

Next, in the “Administrators” item, you can select a candidate from the contact list. By default, this is the channel creator:

You can also install a bot instead of an administrator (to automate the publication of posts). To do this, contact the main bot with the @BotFather command and specify the name displayed in the channel and the unique username of the created bot. When publishing posts, name and username special significance do not have (only you will see them).

Telegram administrator functions

The Telegram administrator can appoint leaders of his groups. When Restricted Mode is enabled, they can add and remove users from a group discussion. The supergroup admin informs users with pinned messages, which is not the case in groups and channels.
How to create a supergroup? To do this, you need to convert a regular group by selecting “Convert to supergroup” from the menu:


Please note: this action is irreversible, so create a supergroup if it makes sense to use it:

How to pin a message in a Telegram group

Using attached messages, admins can inform all participants. To attach a message to a supergroup, you must click on the message; A menu will appear in which to select the “Attach” item (leave the “Notify all participants” checkbox):

That's it, now the attached message is displayed at the top of the chat and visible to all users:

Telegram administrators are divided into categories, where each will have their own responsibilities and signature: for example, one category chats with clients, the second monitors client alerts, the third group performs current tasks and comes to the aid of the second group of administrators. All chat improvement tasks come down to ensuring that the Telegram administrator is visible to each chat user. During the work process, responsibilities are distributed among administrators - each performs functions at his own discretion. The distribution of responsibilities can be agreed upon in personal correspondence with group leaders.

As you can see, the logic of interaction with the program when installing a signature is simple; you just need to carefully study the structure of the settings menu.

For corporate use, you can add duty administrators (as well as bots) and managers to the chat, and in this regard, Telegram replaces technical support. Smart application significantly facilitates communication with clients, speeding up the exchange of information. For comparison, remember the average time it takes to communicate with the administration via tickets.

The big advantage of Telegram is its open program code, the functions of which can be assigned to current tasks if desired. For example, you can make changes to the display of chats (they appear too large in the list), compressing them to a feed, or modifying the search inside a Telegram chat, making it possible to mark all chats as read, assigning a group by chat, setting a change in sorting when searching, and much more.

You can leave all questions about working with the application, comments and suggestions for improvement in the comments to this article.

I continue the series of posts dedicated to Telegram. One of the advantages of this messenger for website creators and owners is the ability to set up auto-posting (broadcast) from your website. This could be an announcement of new articles and posts from the site in Telegram, a selection of news, notifications, and so on.

I will show my examples on the Russified version of the application, if you have not yet switched your Telegram to Russian, you can quickly do this by reading the instructions from my previous manual - How to change the language in Telegram Messenger on Android and iOS

Now we create and register the bot:

1. Find a bot by name in Telegram through a search:

2. Select it, a window appears with the message:

3. Click begin(or enter the /start command depending on your Telegram versions), the following message appears with a list of possible commands for:

4. Now we create our bot, enter the command /newbot (you can not enter it, but click on this command directly in the list) and come up with any name you like for it (for this example I called PunkBot) :

5. Then you need to come up with a unique name for the bot, it must end with three letters bot or so _bot (I set the name PunksBot) and if the name is free, then in the response message we will receive a token:

6. Copy the token and save it, we will need it later, you can try to remember it. Smile. In the same message above the token there will be a link to your new bot, follow it and start the bot with the /start command (or click begin). Bot created and registered:

We're done with the bot for now.

Of course, the bot we created is currently only suitable for use in creating a broadcast of posts from the site. In order for the bot to become fully functional and be able to execute various commands, it needs to be programmed. I will tell you how to do this in a separate article on this topic.

Now we need to create a channel where we will broadcast posts from the site.

Create a channel:

1. To do this, open the menu (in the upper left corner of Telegram) and select the item Create a channel:

2. Enter the name of the new channel (in our example PunkVox) and click on the left top corner tick:

3. In the window that appears, select “Public Channel” and come up with a unique link for it (I left it like that punkvox), if the address is free, click the checkbox again, we will be prompted to add contacts, we can skip this action.

That's it, the channel has been created. All that remains is to add to the channel administrators PunkVox our new bot PunkBot.

Today the Telegram messenger is gaining more and more popularity. Many people began to associate it with bots. This is due to the fact that some channel/group managers cannot imagine their work on Telegram without robot assistants, which make our lives much easier. And new users who have heard about bots ask how to connect a bot to Telegram? Let's find solutions.

This is exactly what we will talk about in our material today.

Let's first define what it is? A bot is a program (lines of code) written by a programmer to perform certain tasks.

Telegram does not restrict the use of robots in any way. Therefore, they are capable of almost anything. With sufficient programmer skills, he can create a program of almost any complexity.

Empowerment

So, judging by the fact that bots are capable of almost everything, we can name the first reason why people connect them - expanding capabilities. That is, they bring something to the messenger that was not there before.

A good example is a statistics bot. He knows how to collect statistics on the channel or its participants, and then, at the request of the manager, he shows it. This is very convenient, especially when you are worried about your future development strategy. After all, the data obtained will help determine the target audience, what content is more interesting to people, and much more. Telegram itself does not have such a tool.

All processes are performed by robots fully automatically

People often use bots specifically to automate certain work processes. This is especially true for routine work. After all, it’s much easier to transfer everything to a program that will perform these tasks much faster and better, and at this time we can do more important things or relax. This greatly simplifies our work with Telegram.

For example, chatbots that are able to communicate with people. They can be configured to answer most frequently asked questions themselves. And in this situation, everyone is happy, both the clients who received an answer to their question, and you, since you did not have to waste your time on this.

They are free

All ready-made bots are free. You don't have to buy them or pay to use them. This is Telegram's policy. If you are faced with something that they are trying to sell you, then you should not fall for it.

Programs can only be paid if you order their development from professionals. For example, you didn’t find a bot with the required functionality and therefore turn to programmers.

How to connect on PC?

Let's try to connect some bot. For example, let's take a rather interesting candidate called Shmalala Bot. This is a chat bot that can cheer up the entire chat, it will tell interesting stories and much more.

Below are the instructions, just follow them:

Ready! The robot should now work. He will periodically send messages to the chat.

We make a bot in the constructor and connect it

In the example above, we connected a ready-made bot. We also want to show you how to make your own bot in the designer and connect it. We will use ManyBot as a constructor.

This process will be somewhat more complicated, but not so much that it will cause any difficulties.

So, as an example, we will try to create a bot that will automatically post news from the site to the Telegram channel.

Ready. Our assistant has been created and configured. And all that remains to be done is to add him to the desired channel/group and assign him as an administrator.

How to connect on a smartphone?

WITH personal computer and the desktop version of Telegram was sorted out. Now let's talk about mobile devices. Let's try to do the same steps, only on a smartphone.

So, first, let's try to connect our Shmalala Bot again.

Ready! Now she will communicate with you and the rest of the group.

Setting up an auto poster in Telegram

And finally, let’s try to set up the same auto-poster, which will publish all the news that is published on the site.

To start auto-posting, add the bot to the channel/group and assign it as an admin.

Ready! As you can see, the setup process on PC and on mobile version not much different. The most big difference is the interface.

When connecting robots to Telegram, you may have certain problems and questions. We tried to give answers to some of them.

1. What to do if the program is silent? In this case, the reason may be different: the bot may simply not work due to an error in program code(there is nothing you can do about it), the server may take a long time to respond (you need to wait) or you enter the wrong command (type “/help” and the bot should send a message with possible commands).
2. When using popular robots, always check that the username is spelled correctly, as today there are clone bots that look exactly the same but do not work correctly.
3. When creating a bot in BotFather, the username must always end with "bot". This distinguishes robot accounts from human accounts.

Bottom line

Today we talked to you about connecting bots to Telegram. Now you know why and how this is done. And your task is to use the information received. We hope the article was useful.