How to create simple web-hook to send alerts to Telegram

14 nov 2021

Hello Traders,

In this video, I have demonstrated how to create a simple web-hook which can send your Tradingview alerts to Telegram channel or group for zero cost.

⬜ Tools Used
▶ Telegram Messenger
▶ Replit - Cloud platform for hosting small programs
▶ Postman - To test web-hooks before going live (Optional)
▶ Cronjob - To set health-check and keep bot alive


⬜ Steps

▶ Create Telegram Bot

• Find BotFather and issue command /newbot
  
• Provide bot name
  
• Provide bot username - which should be unique and end with _bot
  
• Once bot is created, you will get a message with token access key in it. Store the token access key.
  

https://www.tradingview.com/x/RptqIF33/

▶ Prepare Telegram Channel

• Create new telegram channel
  
• Add the bot @username_to_id_bot to it as admin and issue /start to find chat id
  
• Store the chat id and dismiss @username_to_id_bot from channel
  
• Find the bot created in previous step using bot username and add it to channel as admin
  

https://www.tradingview.com/x/G7i5cuwo/

▶ Setup replit

• Create a free Replit account if you do not have it already.
  
• Fork the repl - Tradingview-Telegram-Bot to your space and give a name of your choice.
  
• Set environment variables - TOKEN and CHANNEL which are acquired from previous steps.
  
• Run the REPL
  

https://www.tradingview.com/x/oXsj2Lz3/

▶ Test with postman

• Use the URL on repl and create web-hook post request URL by adding /webhook to it.
  
• Create post request on postman and send it.
  
• You can see that messages sent via postman appearing in your telegram channel.
  
• append ?jsonRequest=true if you are using json output from alerts.
  

https://www.tradingview.com/x/oSZRsaPs/

Json request example:
https://www.tradingview.com/x/cLoe2wej/

▶ Set alerts from tradingview to web-hook

• Use web-hook option and enter the webhook tested from postman in the web-hook URL
  

https://www.tradingview.com/x/XXNBlC0I/

And that's all, the webhook for Telegram Alerts is ready!!

Thanks for watching. Hope you enjoyed the video and learned from it :)

PS: I have made use of extracts from the open github repo: github.com/fabston/TradingView-Webhook-Bot

18 nov 2021

Nota

Just realized that there is issue with hyperlink of repl I posted.

Just copy paste the URL instead of clicking on it. (Tradingview seems to be replacing @ with %2540:

"replit.com/@trendoscope/Tradingview-Telegram-Bot?v=1"

17 feb 2023

Nota

Please check the latest version with few more updates.