How to Set Up SMS Forwarding to Telegram
Step 1: Create Your Telegram Bot
- Launch Telegram and search for BotFather (@botfather)
- Start a chat and send the /newbot command
- Follow the prompts to name your bot
- Copy and securely store the API token BotFather provides - you'll need this later
Your API token will look something like this:
123456789:ABCdefGHIjklMNOpqrsTUVwxyz
Step 2: Set Up Your Telegram Group
- Create a new Telegram group for receiving SMS messages
- Add your newly created bot to the group
- Visit web.telegram.org and log in
- Open your group chat
- Look in your browser's address bar - the group ID will be at the end of the URL starting with "-"
The URL will look like this:
For example:
URL: https://web.telegram.org/k/#-4000000000
Group ID: -4000000000
Step 3: Configure SMS Forwarding
- Log into your Fasken Global account and go to your phone number settings
- Set up an HTTP webhook using this format:
https://api.telegram.org/bot[YOUR_API_TOKEN]/sendMessage?chat_id=[YOUR_GROUP_ID]&text=Incoming%20SMS%20to%20%TO%%20from%20%FROM%%20%MESSAGE% - Replace [YOUR_API_TOKEN] with your bot's token and [YOUR_GROUP_ID] with your group ID
- Save your settings
Message Format
Once configured, you'll receive SMS messages in your Telegram group with this format:
Incoming SMS to [recipient] from [sender] [message content]
You can customize the message format using these variables:
%TO%- Recipient's phone number%FROM%- Sender's phone number%MESSAGE%- SMS content
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