Schedule posts to your Telegram channel

Postia publishes to Telegram channels and groups at the hour you pick, through the shared Postia bot or one of your own, and keeps your bold, italics and links.

What it takes
Keeps your formatting. Up to 4096 characters, or 1024 under a photo.
How it connects
Add the Postia bot to your channel as an administrator, or bring a bot of your own and paste its token.
Plans
On every plan, the free one included.

Step by step

  1. Open your channel in Telegram, then Manage channel, then Administrators.
  2. Add @PostiaAutoPostBot as an administrator.
  3. Leave the Post messages permission on. It is the only one Postia needs; the rest can stay off.
  4. In Postia press Add account, pick Telegram, and keep "Use the Postia bot" selected.
  5. Type your channel as @yourchannel and press Connect.

The full Telegram guide, with what to do when Telegram says no, is in the help.

How do I schedule a post?

  1. Press New post and write the text once.
  2. Attach pictures or a video, pick a hashtag set and a signature if you want them.
  3. Tick the channels it should go to. Each one shows whether the post fits its rules.
  4. Choose Publish now, or pick a date and time and schedule it.

Scheduled posts wait in the queue, where they can still be edited, moved or cancelled until they go out.

Questions

What time is "18:00" when I schedule a post?

The timezone on the Settings screen. Postia stores the moment, not the wall clock, so a post scheduled for 18:00 in Kyiv goes out at that instant wherever you happen to open the app afterwards.

How do I connect a private channel?

A private channel has no @name. Send one of its messages to a bot like @userinfobot and use the numeric id it reports — it starts with -100.

Can I use my own Telegram bot instead of yours?

Yes, and on a channel you care about it is the better answer: the shared bot is an administrator in other people's channels too, and your own is only in yours.

  1. Write to @BotFather in Telegram and send /newbot.
  2. Give it a name and a username. BotFather replies with a token that looks like 123456:ABC-DEF.
  3. Add your new bot to the channel as an administrator with Post messages, exactly as above.
  4. In Postia press Add account, pick Telegram, choose "Use my own bot" and paste the token.
  5. Type the channel and press Connect.

The token is the bot. Anyone holding it can post as your bot, so paste it here and nowhere else. Postia stores it encrypted.

Why does Analytics not show views for a Telegram post?

Telegram tells Postia how many members a channel has and nothing more. It never says how many people saw one particular post, so Postia leaves that blank rather than inventing a number.

Can a Telegram channel feed my other networks by itself?

Yes. An autopost rule can watch it and send what appears there on to your other channels.

Telegram tells Postia the moment something is posted, so it goes on at once. Between two Telegram channels a rule can forward the original instead of sending a copy.

Leave the bot an administrator of the channel — it stops seeing posts the moment it is removed.

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