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tigattack edited this page Apr 27, 2025 · 2 revisions

Creating a bot

  1. Open telegram and open a new chat with bot "BotFather"

    Screenshot Telegram BotFather chat

  2. Send a message with command /newbot to start a new bot creation and follow the steps to give it a name.

    Screenshot Create bot

  3. If you are successful, you'll get a message at the end that the new bot was successfully created. This message will include a bot token for the HTTP API. put this in the relevant field in your VeeamNotify conf.json

    Screenshot Bot creation message with API token

  4. To get your chat ID, send a message to "RawDataBot" with command /start

    This will return a lot of information, but all you need is the value of the id field under chat. This will be your chat ID. Copy this value and put it in the relevant field in your VeeamNotify conf.json

    Screenshot
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