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RSS feed to Telegram

Post an RSS feed to your Telegram channel

Keep your Telegram channel fed without copying links. ShortSync reads the feed every 15 minutes and posts each new item as a photo with its title and link, through a bot you own, to your channel or group.

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Free plan · Set up once · Publish or save drafts

How to set it up

  1. 1

    Connect Telegram

    Create a bot with @BotFather (about a minute), paste its token in ShortSync and add the bot to your channel or group as an admin with the Post Messages permission. ShortSync posts through your own bot.

  2. 2

    Paste the feed

    On ShortSync's Upload page, open Repurpose and create a workflow. Under Post from, pick YouTube or podcast and paste the RSS or Atom feed URL, or a podcast's Apple Podcasts link. ShortSync shows the latest items so you can check it's the right feed.

  3. 3

    Pick Telegram and how to post

    Under Post to, select your Telegram account (and any others you want). Choose Publish right away, or Save drafts to check each post first.

  4. 4

    Let it run

    About 15 minutes after a new item appears in the feed, ShortSync posts it to Telegram. Items from before you created the workflow aren't posted as new.

What the post looks like on Telegram

  • A photo message in the channel or group, with the title and link as its caption.
  • The link is clickable, and subscribers get the usual Telegram notification.

Other ways to do it

All of these work. ShortSync suits you if you'd rather not build or host anything, or want the same post on several platforms.

A hosted RSS-to-Telegram service

Feed reader services can push feeds to Telegram with filters and many feeds per channel, usually on a paid plan.

A self-hosted bot

Open source RSS-to-Telegram bots are free if you run and update one on your own server.

Good to know

  • Items need an image or a video to be posted; items with neither are skipped.
  • For podcasts, each episode uses its own artwork, or the show's cover when it has none. Video podcasts post the video.
  • An old posts workflow can work through the items already in the feed, a few a day in the time slots you pick.
  • Captions on photos and videos can be up to 1,024 characters; longer ones are shortened.
  • Photos can be up to 10 MB and videos up to 50 MB, the Telegram Bot API limits.
Read the setup guide

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Frequently asked questions

Telegram channels only accept posts from admins, so ShortSync posts through a bot you create with @BotFather and add as an admin. The messages come from your bot, under your channel's name.
Yes. Add the bot to the group as an admin with permission to post messages.
Any RSS or Atom feed whose items have an image or a video: podcasts (paste the Apple Podcasts link or your host's RSS feed), YouTube channels, news sites and blogs that include images. Spotify listening links don't work, since Spotify doesn't expose a feed; use the RSS feed from your podcast host.
About every 15 minutes. A new item is posted on the next check after it appears in the feed.
Repurposing workflows are on every ShortSync plan, Free included. Each published post counts as one upload on your plan, like posting it yourself; drafts don't count. If you run out of uploads, new posts wait as drafts instead.

RSS feed to Telegram, on autopilot

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