Bridge Telegram and WhatsApp with an AI agent that broadcasts, moderates groups, and forwards files
Telegram is a messaging platform with over 950 million monthly active users, known for its powerful Bot API, unlimited group sizes, and broadcast channels. The LunoGen Telegram integration connects your AI agent to the Telegram Bot API so it can send messages, manage groups, post to channels, handle inline queries, run polls, and forward files — while bridging everything to and from WhatsApp.
Many audiences live on Telegram: crypto communities, Russian and Eastern European markets, announcement-only channels with millions of subscribers. But most founders and ops teams run their day on WhatsApp. Maintaining both means context-switching all day. An AI agent bridges the two: broadcast an announcement once and it reaches your Telegram channel and your WhatsApp list at the same time, moderate a 50,000-member Telegram group from your phone, or forward a WhatsApp file to a Telegram group with one message.
In Telegram, message @BotFather and run /newbot. Follow the prompts to name your bot and pick a username ending in 'bot'. Copy the HTTP API token.
Run /setprivacy in @BotFather and choose Disable if your bot needs to read all group messages for moderation. Use /setcommands to publish a command list.
Add the bot to any group or channel you want it to manage. For channels, make it an admin with Post Messages permission. For groups, grant Delete Messages and Restrict Users if you need moderation.
Open LunoGen → Credentials → New → Telegram. Paste the bot token. LunoGen will verify the token with a getMe call and list the groups your bot is in.
LunoGen automatically registers a webhook with setWebhook so your bot receives updates in real time. No polling required.
Keep a WhatsApp group and a Telegram group perfectly in sync. Every message on one side is relayed to the other, with media, reactions, and replies preserved.
Relaying message to bridged WhatsApp group...
Write your announcement on WhatsApp and the agent broadcasts it to your Telegram channel, your WhatsApp list, and any other configured destinations — one message, many channels.
Send this to our Telegram channel and WhatsApp broadcast list: 'We just released the new chart renderer with 12 new chart types. Changelog in the app. Thank you for using LunoGen!'
Preparing broadcast. Let me format it for each channel...
The agent watches your Telegram groups for spam, coordinated scams, and rule violations. It kicks the bad actors automatically and sends you a quiet daily report on WhatsApp.
Matched 'fake job scam' pattern. Taking action.
The agent answers common questions in your Telegram group — pricing, changelog, how to join the beta — with inline keyboard buttons that deep-link to the right docs or forms.
Matched FAQ intent: pricing + free tier. Replying with inline keyboard.
Send any file on WhatsApp with a forwarding instruction, and the agent forwards it to the right Telegram chat with the caption preserved and a proper filename.
Forward this PDF to the Luno Founders Telegram group with caption 'April board deck — feedback welcome by Friday'
Downloading the PDF and forwarding to Telegram...
Ask the agent to run a poll in a Telegram channel and it creates the poll, tracks answers in real time, and delivers a formatted result summary to WhatsApp.
Run a poll in @lunogen_news: 'Which integration should we ship next?' — options: Notion, Airtable, Linear, Asana. Duration 24 hours.
Creating the poll in @lunogen_news...
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Spin up an AI agent in under 2 minutes, plug in your Telegram credentials, and start running your workflows from WhatsApp.