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webhook relay

SHOW HN2018

53points
12comments
#763of 2,155 in 2018
Top 36%of 2018 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

2 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 2 critical, out of 9 comments about the project. Thread score 0.00.

Idea: 2 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Useful for routing webhooks into Telegram

    From 2 comments
    • Wow, care to elaborate more about the switch from Slack to Telegram? I've been thinking of doing the same with my team, and this webhook feature was exactly what I was going to…
      igammarays on HN
    • I built a quick app with PushMore, to send limited 80 character alerts. It requires a passphrase to send, so that you're not spammed all the time. https://pingr.xyz
      jajoosam on HN

Objections

  • Webhook URL is visible to everyone in a group

    From 1 comment
    • We switched from Slack to Telegram a few months ago for our team communication at BetaList. Some of our website notifications (new signups, certain errors, etc) still were sent…
      keesj on HN
  • Relying on a third-party service is unnecessary when Telegram can be called directly

    From 2 comments
    • This kind of feature can easily be implemented by oneself as we described here: https://www.curry-software.com/en/blog/telegram_unit_fail/ No need for an external service and…
      jdemler on HN
    • Absolutely. Their API as well as community's convenience wrappers are pretty excellent. Wrote an entire bot in a day (@LiveCoinWatchBot) and that's a testament to the development…
      synthmeat on HN

Requests

  • Privacy controls for webhook URLs

    From 1 comment
    • We switched from Slack to Telegram a few months ago for our team communication at BetaList. Some of our website notifications (new signups, certain errors, etc) still were sent…
      keesj on HN
  • Escape whitespace and parse URLs in messages

    From 1 comment
    • I love it but it has a few catches. could you please escape the whitespace? "hello world" returns me "hello+world" . Also I am trying to configure a nice template on zapier, so…
      adv0r on HN

Questions

  • How group chat use works without documentation

    From 2 comments
    • cool I can get the bot to post a PM to me but the website says it also works in group chats..how? no documentation
      adv0r on HN
    • Invite the bot into the group :) (and send /start to get the webhook URL)
      keesj on HN

Alternatives named

  • Calling the Telegram command-line tool directly from code

    From 1 comment
    • This kind of feature can easily be implemented by oneself as we described here: https://www.curry-software.com/en/blog/telegram_unit_fail/ No need for an external service and…
      jdemler on HN
  • Building a custom Python Telegram bot with notification controls

    From 1 comment
    • Haha, I started building something similar using python (not that I like that language, but it seemed like the right tool for what I wanted). Additional features I (partially)…
      archi42 on HN

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