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Telegram connects with a **bot token** created with Telegram's BotFather — the Telegram bot that lets you
create bots by chatting with it.

**Requirements:** administrator role; a bot already created on BotFather, with its token copied.

1. On the Telegram channel's card, tap **Connect**.
2. When the connection wizard asks for it, paste the bot's **token**.
3. Confirm to link it.

**Result:** the channel is left **Connected**, with the bot's username (for example `@bot_not_connected`
switches to showing the real bot) visible in the card's "Bot" field.

Just like WhatsApp, you can repeat "Add channel" (section 3) to connect several bots — each with its own
name, agent and owners.

![The "Connect Telegram" panel for a freshly created channel: instructions to create the bot with @BotFather (the /newbot command), the text "Connect your Telegram bot so your assistant can handle messages on this channel", the "Bot token (BotFather)" field with the id:token example format, the warning not to share the token publicly, and the Connect button](/captures/canales-telegram-token.png)