# Runner + Telegram: posts to your channels

> Connect your Telegram bot and Runner posts the messages you approve to your channels and groups, and brings messages people send your bot into one inbox.

Canonical: https://www.runtheworld.ai/integrations/telegram

Post to your Telegram channels and groups on schedule, and answer the people who message your bot.

## What Runner does with Telegram

**Reads**

- Messages people send your bot.

**Does**

- Posts scheduled messages to the channels and groups your bot is in.
- Sends your replies from the inbox.

**You approve**

- Every Telegram post goes out from a version you approved.

**Connects:** Paste your bot's token from BotFather. An organization owner or admin connects it.