### 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. 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 ``` A more detailed list of instructions can be found here [https://core.telegram.org/bots#botfather](https://core.telegram.org/bots#botfather)