Setup Notifications so ProfitTrailer can send Trading Updates
- In Discord, create your own server by clicking the + button in the server menu on the left. See our guide here
- Create a text channel by right clicking on your server icon and selecting “Create Channel”.
- Create a discord bot. See our guide here!
- Add the bot to your server
- Configure the Discord settings in the Notification settings of the bot.
- depending on the roles and permissions on your server you need to ensure the bot has the appropriate privileges to pair in the channel.
- In bot versions 2.1.x or below, You will not receive any messages when in test mode. Bot versions 2.2.0+ allow test mode messages.
- a password is required to use notifications.
- In Telegram, send a private message to @BotFather (NOT to be confused with TheBotFather channel)
- Once there type “/newbot” to create a bot. Answer the questions by typing answers and pressing enter.
- You will receive a message containing your bot token.
- Start a chat with your bot's name (for example @MyTPBot) and press start button
- Start another chat with https://t.me/MyTelegramID_bot.
- If that doesn't work, try a chat with https://telegram.me/id_chatbot
- or paste @id_chatbot into a telegram chat and click it. It should open the chat id bot in a new chat.
- or send a message to: @userinfobot with content: /start
- Finally, here is a link to a page https://ebotstore.de/bot/mytelegramidbot-telegram with a couple more ID chatbots for telegram that you can click if the above doesn't get a valid response.
- The bots on step 3 will give you your Telegram ID (ex: 359015730). Store this to use later as Chat ID on the notifications settings page.
- Configure the Telegram settings in the Notification settings of the bot.
- a password is required to use notifications.
- For group chats invite https://telegram.me/myidbot to the existing group and type /getgroupid@myidbot (include the '-' symbol when adding it to your properties.
- Remember to click “Start” at the bottom of the page when you start a new chat.