Telegram step
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Telegram step works as an interface to . There are following options to work with Telegram step:
Professional mode. Choose any Telegram method you like and compose the request in JSON-format;
Send text message. Easier way to deal with sendMessage method. Typing a text message + choosing advanced options
There are following fields:
Method type. POST/GET.
Save response to... Choose where to save API response (if necessary).
Automatic character escaping usually brakes markdown links. Turn it off, if you want to add links, but mirror characters from the list manually.
There are following fields:
Message (with Markdown formatting by default).
Use reply keyboard.
List of buttons below, each one has options to request contact or request location.
Remove keyboard (doesn't match with the previous option). Removes all reply keyboards.
Disable notification.
Disable link preview.
Escape characters with \. Works in the same way as in Professional mode.
Telegram Bot API supports basic formatting for messages. You can use bold, italic, underlined and strikethrough text, as well as inline links and pre-formatted code in your bots' messages. Telegram clients will render them accordingly.
In Telegram v.2 step Markdown v2 is turned on by default. Use the following syntax in your message:
Any character with code between 1 and 126 inclusively can be escaped anywhere with a preceding '\' character, in which case it is treated as an ordinary character and not a part of the markup.
Inside pre and code entities, all '`' and '\' characters must be escaped with a preceding '\' character.
Inside (...) part of inline link definition, all ')' and '\' must be escaped with a preceding '\' character.
In all other places characters '_', '*', '[', ']', '(', ')', '~', '`', '>', '#', '+', '-', '=', '|', '{', '}', '.', '!' must be escaped with the preceding character '\'.
In case of ambiguity between italic and underline entities __ is always treated from left to right as beginning or end of underline entity, so instead of ___italic underline___ use ___italic underline_\r__, where \r is a character with code 13, which will be ignored.
Chat IDs. That is ID (or an array of IDs, comma separated) of objects from Integrations/Telegram/TChat data structure (see ).
Method name. One of the .
Request body. According Telegram documentation, but exclude parameter chat_id — it will be added automatically, based on Chat IDs field. The input control will check consistency of JSON syntax. You are welcome to use here, adding fields of the current object, global constants or local variables.
Escaping characters with \. If the option ON, Directual will escape with \. But be careful. That could conflict with Markdown (inline links mostly). Turn the option OFF if you want to manage that matter by yourself.
