How to Add a Telegram Bot to Telegram Group

In this tutorial, I will explain how you can add a Telegram chatbot to your Telegram group and automatically reply to messages in your group, in just 2 simple steps!

Let’s dive in!

Step 1: Add your Telegram Bot to your Group

The next step is to add your Telegram Bot to the group.

In Telegram, you can just go to your Telegram group and click on the top bar:

Click on Add:

And fill in the name of your Telegram bot:

Step 2: Make your Bot Administrator of the Group

The next step is to make your bot administrator of the Telegram group.

After you added your bot, you can just click on Edit in your Telegram Group settings:

Choose for Administrators:

And click on Add Admin:

Select your Telegram Bot:

And then give it all the rights and click on Done:

Now, your Telegram Bot automatically replies to messages in your Telegram group!

What if your bot only responds when it’s being mentioned?

If your Telegram bot only responds when it’s being mentioned, and you want it to respond to all messages in the group, you need to change the privacy settings.

To do that, you need to search for “Botfather” in Telegram and start a conversation with him:

And then type in the command /mybots and select your Telegram Bot:

Click on Bot Settings:

And select Group Privacy:

And then click on Turn off to disable the privacy mode of your bot:

Now, if you go back to your Telegram group and say something (without mentioning the bot), it should automatically reply to your message.

What if your Telegram Bot does not reply to any messages?

After doing all the steps mentioned above, it might be that your Telegram bot is still not replying to any messages in the Telegram group.

And this can be because the bot platform you used does not provide this feature. For example, with Manychat, you can create a Telegram bot, but you cannot add it to a group.

So if your bot is still not replying to any messages in the group after performing the steps in this tutorial, you should check whether your bot platform has this feature.

Now It’s Your Turn

And that’s how you add a Telegram chatbot to your Telegram group.

Now I have a question for you:

Do you already use Telegram Bots in your Groups? And if not, why not?

Let me know by leaving a comment below!