From 35dde0e40a202b8bfb78cd72ed071e5dd2e20c6e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Caron Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2023 19:53:32 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Updated Notify_telegram (markdown) --- Notify_telegram.md | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Notify_telegram.md b/Notify_telegram.md index 74251b7..b4bd440 100644 --- a/Notify_telegram.md +++ b/Notify_telegram.md @@ -34,10 +34,10 @@ Unfortunately (at this time) Telegram doesn't make it intuitive to get this **{c However, Apprise can make this task a bit easier if the intention is to just private message yourself. If this is the case, simply send a private message to this new bot you just created (above). That's it! -By doing this, Apprise is able to automatically to detect _your_ **{chat_id}** from the message sent to the bot. Doing this also allows you to greatly simplify the Apprise URL to read: +By doing this, Apprise is able to automatically to detect _your_ **{chat_id}** from the message sent to the bot. * **tgram**://**{bot_token}**/ -When using the short form of the Telegram/Apprise URL and the bot owner (probably you) is successfully detected, the **{chat_id}** it detected will appear in the logs after the notification is sent. Ideally you should take this and update your Apprise URL to explicitly reference this in the future. +When using the short form of the Telegram/Apprise URL and the bot owner (probably you) is successfully detected, the **{chat_id}** it detected will appear in the logs after the notification is sent. Note that the **Telegram API keeps incoming messages for 24 hours only**. Thus, you should update your Apprise URL to explicitly reference this in the future. * **tgram**://**{bot_token}**/**{chat_id}** **Note**: you can also just go ahead and acquire the **{chat_id}** yourself after first messaging yourself as per the instructions above. Afterwards, you just need to visit `https://api.telegram.org/bot{bot_token}/getUpdates`.