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  1. Open your Telegram Desktop App.

  2. In the top left corner go to Search.

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  3. Type @botFather in the Search field and click in the result BotFather.

  4. A new chat will open with the next text, click in Start button at the bottom.

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  5. Now we can start to type commands to get a new bot, type /newbot to create a new bot.

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  6. Enter a name for the new bot, for example Telegram channel bot.

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  7. Choose a username for the bot, for example ThiioTelegramChannelBot, once done BotFather will give us a token, this will be neccesary for the next steps.

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  8. Search in the top left corner the recently created bot by typing its name, in this case we can search it by typing @thiiotelegramchannelbot, click in the result.

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  9. A new chat will start, click int the Start button at the bottom.

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  10. Once done the chat is ready to receive messages, now make a request to https://api.telegram.org/bot<token>/getUpdates to get the updates from the bot, we need the Chat ID.

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  11. The telegram channel requires the Bot Token and the Chat ID, once got them click in Save.

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