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### Telegram Adapter
For Telegram, you need to create a Bot. This is pretty easy. Open [this ](https://telegram.me/BotFather ) url on your smartphone and follow the instructions.
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A telegram bot is not allowed to send messages directly to a user, you as a user need to first contact the bot to get a chatId.
After the user has send a message to your bot the first time, you can gather the chatId like this:
```
curl -X GET https://api.telegram.org/bot{YOUR_TELEGRAM_TOKEN}/getUpdates
```
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A more detailed list of instructions can be found here [https://core.telegram.org/bots#botfather ](https://core.telegram.org/bots#botfather )