Integrations

Telegram Integration

Click analytics and A/B tests for growth — delivered straight to your channel or personal chat.

Set Up Your Connection in Three Steps

LinkForge talks to Telegram through a dedicated bot you create once. After linking, every click, redirect, and A/B test result flows into your chosen chat without additional configuration.

1. Create a bot with @BotFather. Open a chat with @BotFather on Telegram, send /newbot, and follow the prompts. Give the bot a display name like "LinkForge Analytics" and a username ending in _bot, for example acme_linkforge_bot. BotFather will reply with a token — save it; you'll paste it into LinkForge.

2. Add the bot to your channel or group. If you want click notifications in a channel, add the bot as an administrator with "Post Messages" permission. For private admin alerts, simply start a chat with the bot and send /start.

3. Paste the token into LinkForge. Go to Settings → Integrations → Telegram, enter the bot token, select your target chat (channel, group, or personal admin chat), and click Verify Connection. LinkForge will send a test message confirming the link. The entire process takes under two minutes.

What You Get

Real-Time Click Notifications

Every time someone taps a LinkForge short link, your Telegram channel receives a formatted message within one second. Each notification includes the destination URL, click timestamp, visitor country, device type, and the UTM parameters attached to the original link. Configure thresholds so you only get alerted when a link exceeds a daily click count — for example, notify when a campaign link passes 500 clicks in 24 hours.

Shorten Links Directly from Telegram

Send any URL to your LinkForge bot and receive a branded short link back in the same chat. Use commands like /shorten https://example.com/long-page or simply paste a raw link. The bot supports optional parameters: /shorten https://example.com/page --alias spring-sale --expire 2025-08-01. Your team can shorten links without ever opening the LinkForge dashboard — ideal for community managers and support agents who live in Telegram.

Daily Stats in Your Personal Chat

At a time you choose, LinkForge sends a concise report to the admin's personal Telegram messages. The report covers total clicks, unique visitors, top referrers, geographic breakdown, and A/B test winner declarations. For example: "Yesterday: 1,847 clicks across 34 links. Top performer — /q3-webinar (412 clicks, 68% CTR). A/B test 'landing-variant-b' won with a 12.3% lift over control." No dashboard login required.

How Teams Use It

Here are three real-world patterns from LinkForge customers who rely on Telegram integration for daily operations.

Campaign monitoring for affiliate managers. Maria Chen, affiliate lead at NovaBrand, posts a fresh set of 20 short links to her Telegram channel every Monday. Each link carries a unique UTM source tagged to an affiliate partner. Throughout the week, her channel fills with click notifications. By Friday afternoon she can scroll through the channel history and instantly see which partner drove the most engagement — no spreadsheet export needed. When an affiliate link spikes past 1,000 clicks, the threshold alert lets her know to check for bot traffic.

Event promotion with live countdown links. The DevOps Weekly newsletter team uses LinkForge to track which article links drive the most sign-ups. They shorten every link in the newsletter through the Telegram bot, then watch the channel in real time as the newsletter hits inboxes. During the last issue, they noticed the "free template" link outperformed the "signup" link by 3:1, so they moved the template CTA to the top of the next edition — increasing conversions by 18%.

Support team link sharing. Alexei Petrov's support desk at CloudStack sends customers download links to documentation and troubleshooting guides. Instead of opening the LinkForge dashboard, agents paste the long URL to the bot and get a branded short link in three seconds. At the end of each week, Alexei receives a personal Telegram report showing which guides were clicked most, helping the team identify gaps in the documentation that need rewriting.