Telegram Reminder Bot

Telegram along with messaging feature has many other features one of them being the bot.

Well, do you forget to perform some of your activities on a daily basis in between your busy schedule? If yes, then the Telegram bot can help you. Just follow the below simple steps to set up a Telegram bot so that it reminds you to complete your activities daily.

Requirements

Telagram app: In the Telegram app you need a telegram bot, telegram group and its chat id

Steps to create a telegram bot

Search for BotFather in your telegram app.

2. Send hi to BotFather, it will reply with a list of commands to create, edit, and change bot settings as shown in the following figure:

3. Create a new bot by sending /newbot to BotFather, you will now be asked to provide a name (for example: myreminderbot) to the newly created bot.

4. BotFather will now create the bot and return you a token as shown in the following figure:

Steps to create a telegram group and get its chat id

Create a new Telegram group.

2. Add the above created telegram bot to this group.

3. Now, fetch the chat id of the group through the following steps:

Send /my_id <bot_username> in the telegram group

for example: /my_id myreminderbot

Now, hit https://api.telegram.org/bot<add_token>/getUpdates URL in the browser, you will receive a json response which will include chat id, as shown below:

“chat”:{“id”: <chat_id>, “title”:<group_name>,..}

Note: Replace <add_token> with the token you received in the preceding step 4.

4. Now, add this chat_id in the base_url as shown in the following script and execute it: