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Telegram Bot for channel setup.md

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Setup your bot to send messages to a channel

  1. Open https://telegram.me/botfather, create a bot and get a <Bot_token>
  2. Go to your bot and launch it using /start
  3. Add your bot as an admin to the desired chat
  4. Send a test message to your bot from the channel use @bot_name
  5. Get updates received by your bot: https://api.telegram.org/bot<Bot_token>/getUpdates
  6. Get the chat_id from the response of step 4 result.$.message.chat.id, it starts with a -
  7. Send a message to a channel through your bot: https://api.telegram.org/bot<Bot_token>/sendMessage?chat_id=<chat_id>&text=hello
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