Telegram Notifications and Control in BAS

The fastest way to know how a bot is doing without watching it is a Telegram message. The Telegram module sends updates straight to your bot in the messenger — the lightweight notification channel for any BAS project.

What it does

The module lets you send messages to your own bot in Telegram. The standard module sends text; an extended version goes further — sending files, documents and screenshots, and text with buttons. Beyond notifications, you can even control BAS scripts from Telegram.

When to use it

Two situations make it indispensable:

• Channel content — if you run a Telegram channel and need to feed it new content, the module publishes to it on autopilot. This is the engine behind many auto-posting setups.
• Run notifications — simply being told when the bot succeeded or failed. A Send message at the end of a run — or on an error branch — turns a silent background bot into one that pings you the moment something matters.

Why it beats email for alerts

For “tell me what happened,” Telegram is lighter than SMTP email: no mail server to configure, no throttling, no app passwords — just an instant message. Wire a Telegram notification into the failure branch of every production bot and you’ll never again discover hours later that a run died silently. Add a screenshot on failure and you often see why without opening anything.

The remote-control side closes the loop: not only does the bot report to you in Telegram, you can send commands back to steer it — start, stop, or trigger a script from your phone.