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Mini-Project 1: Content Automation

🚀 Mini - Project 1: Telegram Automation

Build your first real automation in 15 minutes!

Video Walkthrough

Full Telegram Automation Walkthrough

Watch this before you start the mini-project. It covers the full flow: creating the Telegram bot, getting the Group ID, wiring the Node-RED flow, and checking the final automation result.

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🎯 What You Will Build

A working Telegram bot that automatically posts messages to your group — scheduled by Node-RED, powered by AI assistance!

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Telegram Bot

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Node-RED Flow

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Auto-Posting

💡 Why Start With Telegram?

Fastest results — No approval process like Instagram or YouTube
See it work immediately — Send a message, see it in your group in seconds
Real business skill — Businesses pay USD 100-500 per automation build (one-time Telegram setup).
Perfect for learning — Simple API, great documentation

Interactive WebTerminal is available inside the enrolled course workspace.

⬇️ Your commands create flows below ⬇️

Interactive Node-RED workspace is available inside the enrolled course workspace.

1 Manual Setup (You Do This First!)

⚠️ Important: Complete these steps yourself before using the AI Terminal. While AI could help with some of this, doing it manually helps you understand how Telegram bots work — essential knowledge for your automation business!

A Create Your Telegram Bot

Open Telegram on your phone or desktop
Open @BotFather (click the link or search in Telegram)
Start chat and send: /newbot
Enter a name for your bot (e.g., "My Automation Bot")
Enter a username ending with "bot" (e.g., myauto_bot)
🎉 Copy the API Token — it looks like: 123456789:ABCdefGHIjklMNOpqrsTUVwxyz

📋 Pro Tip:Copy the token now! You will paste it into Node-RED settings later. Once saved there, you can always find it in the Telegram node configuration.

B Create Telegram Group & Add Your Bot

In Telegram, tap New Group
Name it something like "My Automation Test"
Add your bot by searching its username (e.g., @myauto_bot)
Create the group
Go to group settings → Make your bot an Administrator
Give it permission to Post Messages

⚠️ Critical: Your bot MUST be an admin to post messages!

C Get Your Group ID

The AI needs your group's numeric ID to send messages. Here's how to find it:

In Telegram, open @getmyid_bot
Add this bot to your group (you created in Step B)
The bot will immediately send the Group ID
It looks like: -1001234567890 (starts with minus sign)
Copy this number! Or you can see the group ID in your browser on Desktop web-version like this:

💡 Alternative: You can also use @RawDataBot — add it to group, it shows all info including Chat ID

D Install Telegram Package in Node-RED

Node-RED needs a special module to talk to Telegram. Install it now:

Look at the Node-RED panel below (orange frame)
Click the ☰ menu (top-right corner)
Select Manage palette
Go to the Install tab
Search for: node-red-contrib-telegrambot
Click Install and wait for completion
You'll see new Telegram nodes in the left sidebar! 🎉

✅ You'll know it worked when: You see "telegram receiver", "telegram sender" nodes in the Node-RED palette

Click Deploy after setup

Then you will see if it success -> must be Connected

🛠️ If installation stalls: Re-open Manage palette → Install and click Install again. Node-RED will flash a green "Installed node-red-contrib-telegrambot" toast when it succeeds.

✅ Setup Checklist — Do You Have:

Bot Token from @BotFather Telegram Group created Bot is admin in group Group ID (starts with -100) Telegram package installed in Node-RED

2 AI-Powered Automation (Your AI Agent Runs the Terminal)

Manual prep is complete—now your AI agent can take over. The terminal keeps your chat history forever, so give clear mission orders and let your AI agent push updates straight into Node-RED.

✏️ Copy/Paste Checklist:
Review the mission text below (no credentials needed—it references the setup you already configured in Node-RED).
Select everything in this box (Ctrl/Cmd+A) and copy it (Ctrl/Cmd+C).
Scroll down to the dark AI agent terminal panel (the first embedded frame) and paste via the right-click context menu → Paste, or press Shift+Ctrl+V.
Confirm the text lands exactly as written (no missing lines), then press Enter once to send the mission.
Read https://sell.systems/localdocs/telegram_automation.md fully before acting. If the page does not open, try other methods (curl -fsSL, wget, local copy) until you succeed; only stop after every method fails and you list them. Then execute this task now without asking me to restate it: use the live Node-RED runtime, update the live flow to create the '01 Telegram Bot' tab with manual and scheduled inject flows, wire it to my Telegram bot using the provided TELEGRAM Group ID, validate the live flows JSON, deploy the flow, trigger the real Telegram test message, and confirm the result. Do not stop after summarizing the guide. Do not ask me to formulate the task. Ask a follow-up question only if the TELEGRAM Group ID is still missing or another required credential is truly absent. Execute strictly without sandbox (--dangerously-bypass-approvals-and-sandbox), do not touch timeouts/flags, and confirm the Telegram post after each run. TELEGRAM Group ID for functions is: [PASTE -100XXXX ID]

🤖 What Your AI Agent Will Build For You:

"01 Telegram Bot" tab with manual + scheduled inject flows.
function nodes that set msg.payload using your group ID..
flow, validated JSON, etc...
You can press on your keyboard number 2 to allow your AI agent to work faster without asking you for confirmations:

🔄 Remember: Once your AI agent confirms the flow is deployed, scroll to the orange Node-RED frame, tap the Send Test Message button, then hit the green Reload to See Changes arrow to refresh the canvas. Use the screenshot from that test in your submission.

🛠️ Your Automation Workspace

Tell your AI agent what to build → Watch it appear in Node-RED

📤 What to Submit

Screenshot of your Telegram group with the bot's test message
Screenshot of your Node-RED flow (click Reload first!) and try to use the Full-Screen Button
Describe: What topic would you automate for a real business?

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