🚀 Telegram for GitHub Actions - Daily Standup

GitHub Action for sending a Telegram notification message.

Usage

NOTE: If you are getting "Error: Chat not found", then you need to look at this stackoverflow's answer here.

Send custom message and see the custom variable as below.

name: telegram message
on: [push]
jobs:

  build:
    name: Build
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: send telegram message on push
        uses: appleboy/telegram-action@master
        with:
          to: ${{ secrets.TELEGRAM_TO }}
          token: ${{ secrets.TELEGRAM_TOKEN }}
          message: |
            ${{ github.actor }} created commit:
            Commit message: ${{ github.event.commits[0].message }}
            
            Repository: ${{ github.repository }}
            
            See changes: https://github.com/${{ github.repository }}/commit/${{github.sha}}

Remove args to send the default message.

- name: send default message
  uses: appleboy/telegram-action@master
  with:
    to: ${{ secrets.TELEGRAM_TO }}
    token: ${{ secrets.TELEGRAM_TOKEN }}

Input variables

• socks5 - optional. support socks5 proxy URL
• photo - optional. photo message
• document - optional. document message
• sticker - optional. sticker message
• audio - optional. audio message
• voice - optional. voice message
• location - optional. location message
• venue - optional. venue message
• video - optional. video message
• debug - optional. enable debug mode
• format - optional. markdown or html. See MarkdownV2 style
• message - optional. custom message
• message_file - optional. overwrite the default message template with the contents of the specified file.
• disable_web_page_preview - optional. disables link previews for links in this message. default is false.
• disable_notification - optional. disables notifications for this message, supports sending a message without notification. default is false.

Example

send photo message:

- uses: actions/checkout@master
- name: send photo message
  uses: appleboy/telegram-action@master
  with:
    to: ${{ secrets.TELEGRAM_TO }}
    token: ${{ secrets.TELEGRAM_TOKEN }}
    message: send photo message
    photo: tests/github.png
    document: tests/gophercolor.png

send location message:

- name: send location message
  uses: appleboy/telegram-action@master
  with:
    to: ${{ secrets.TELEGRAM_TO }}
    token: ${{ secrets.TELEGRAM_TOKEN }}
    location: '24.9163213 121.1424972'
    venue: '35.661777 139.704051 竹北體育館 新竹縣竹北市'

send message using custom proxy (support http, https, and socks5) like socks5://127.0.0.1:1080 or http://222.124.154.19:23500

- name: send message using socks5 proxy URL
  uses: appleboy/telegram-action@master
  with:
    to: ${{ secrets.TELEGRAM_TO }}
    token: ${{ secrets.TELEGRAM_TOKEN }}
    socks5: "http://222.124.154.19:23500"
    message: Send message from socks5 proxy URL.

Secrets

Getting started with Telegram Bot API.

• token: Telegram authorization token.
• to: Unique identifier for this chat.

How to get unique identifier from telegram api:

curl https://api.telegram.org/bot<token>/getUpdates

See the result: (get chat id like 65382999)

{
  "ok": true,
  "result": [
    {
      "update_id": 664568113,
      "message": {
        "message_id": 8423,
        "from": {
          "id": 65382999,
          "is_bot": false,
          "first_name": "Bo-Yi",
          "last_name": "Wu (appleboy)",
          "username": "appleboy46",
          "language_code": "en"
        },
        "chat": {
          "id": 65382999,
          "first_name": "Bo-Yi",
          "last_name": "Wu (appleboy)",
          "username": "appleboy46",
          "type": "private"
        },
        "date": 1550333434,
        "text": "?"
      }
    }
  ]
}

Template variable

Github Variable	Telegram Template Variable
GITHUB_REPOSITORY	repo
GITHUB_ACTOR	repo.namespace
GITHUB_SHA	commit.sha
GITHUB_REF	commit.ref
GITHUB_WORKFLOW	github.workflow
GITHUB_ACTION	github.action
GITHUB_EVENT_NAME	github.event.name
GITHUB_EVENT_PATH	github.event.path
GITHUB_WORKSPACE	github.workspace