Telegram

Works with the Telegram Bot API: send/edit/delete/pin messages, chat actions, media uploads (photo, document, audio, video, animation, sticker — from a URL/file_id or binary input), locations and media groups, chat management, callback/inline-query answers, and binary-safe file downloads. Leave the text blank on sendMessage to send the input payload as pretty-printed JSON.

Finding it in the library

Search the builder's node library for Telegram (it lives under Output). A single click opens the in-editor docs panel shown here — description, ports, and every property, without leaving the canvas. Double-click (or drag) to add it to the workflow.

Wired up in the builder

Telegram in a real, runnable flow — captured live from the Studio editor, exactly as it looks on your canvas. This is the same workflow used for the example input & output below.

How it’s configured

The node’s Configure panel as it opens in the builder when you select the step — every setting laid out with real values. Click any field to edit it.

Ports

Ports are the node’s contract with its neighbours. In the editor a port label renders bold when wired and italic when optional; ◈ ports accept attachment carriers rather than data wires.

How data flows through it

Telegram consumes the content of the incoming envelope — when it is fed directly by a trigger, the trigger’s wrapper is unwrapped at the node boundary so the node sees the actual data, not the metadata shell. Its output becomes the payload for the next node, while the envelope (trace ids, correlation, binary refs) rides along untouched. In the Runs view you always see the whole envelope for both sides of this node.

Expressions in the config

String-typed properties accept {{ }} expressions evaluated against the incoming item at run time — e.g. {{ $json.customer.email }}. On this node that’s token, chatId, text, replyToMessageId, messageId, media, fileName, caption, latitude, longitude, title, description, userId, callbackQueryId, inlineQueryId, fileId, baseUrl. JSON- and code-typed fields never interpolate — they are passed through literally.

Build it with AI

Every node in this reference is reachable through Flowdrome’s AI Copilot and the MCP tools — say what you want, and the graph surgery happens server-side. Node types resolve fuzzily, so the catalog label (Telegram) works as well as the exact type id (output.telegram).

In the Copilot panel (or any connected AI):

add a telegram node after the trigger

As a step in a create_chain_workflow call:

{"type":"Telegram","config":{}}

curl -s -X POST http://localhost:48170/mcp -H "content-type: application/json" -d '{ "jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": "1", "method": "tools/call", "params": { "name": "add_node", "arguments": { "workflowId": "<id>", "type": "Telegram" } } }'

Example input & output

Captured from a real test run of the workflow above — this is what you see in the run data panel after pressing Test workflow.

Input — what the node received

Output — what the node produced

Property reference

Every setting, with its type and default — the same fields shown configured in the panel above.

Using it

Echo a message back, timestamped

The send half of the shipped Telegram Echo demo is three properties:

1. Pick your bot credential in the node’s credential picker — the Token field then carries ${credential.telegram-bot.botToken}, a vault reference resolved at run start.
2. Chat id: a fixed id, or ${credential.telegram-bot.chatId} if you stored a default one with the credential.
3. Text takes {{ }} expressions straight in the field: ⏰ {{ $json.receivedAt }} — You said: {{ $json.message.text }}.

Reply to whoever messaged the bot

Pair with the Telegram Trigger and take the chat id from the update itself — set Chat id to {{ $json.message.chat.id }} and Text to something like Got it, {{ $json.message.from.first_name }}!.

Tips

• Blank text = JSON dump. Leave Text empty on sendMessage and the node sends the input payload pretty-printed — a zero-config debug notifier.
• Media from upstream binaries. sendPhoto/sendDocument/… accept a URL, a Telegram file_id, or binary data flowing in from a previous node (set Binary field).
• Parse mode gotchas are Telegram’s. MarkdownV2 requires escaping characters like . and -; with plain interpolated user text, none is the safe default.
• Downloads are binary-safe. The getFile download operation emits a real binary item that S3/Write File/Gmail consume as-is.

Related nodes

The rest of the Output group — the same folder you’d scan in the editor’s library.

• HTTP Request Sends workflow data to an HTTP endpoint.
• Play Audio Plays binary audio (e.g
• Show Image Shows a binary image (e.g
• Send Message Sends a normalized message to Gmail, Slack, Telegram, Discord, or a generic webhook endpoint.
• Respond to Webhook Answers the HTTP trigger's request mid-flow with a status, headers, and body — the run continues afterwards
• Send Email Sends an email over SMTP (STARTTLS/TLS/none, AUTH PLAIN/LOGIN)
• Slack Sends a Slack message (text or Block Kit blocks) to a channel via chat.postMessage with a bot token
• Discord Sends a Discord message through a webhook or as a bot (token + channel)

This page is generated from the node registry by gen-node-docs.mjs on every site build — ports, properties, defaults and visibility rules cannot drift from the code. The screenshots and example data are captured from a live Flowdrome by npm run shots:nodes and npm run gen:examples. The hand-authored notes above are merged in.