nmdc-telegramfrontend/README.txt

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A bot to synchronise an NMDC hub with a Telegram supergroup.
## USAGE
Create a new bot
- Use BotFather to create a new bot
- Use BotFather to change its privacy mode for group chats
Create a group
- Manually create a group chat and add the bot to it
- Convert group chat to supergroup
- Grant bot to be an administrator (including ability to add more administrators)
- Settings > "Who can add members" > Only administrators
- Create an invite link
Start nmdc-telegramfrontend
- Run this bot with no -GroupChatID, to learn the groupchat ID
- Post a test message in the group chat, to discover the groupchat ID
- Leave the group chat
- Run this bot with -GroupChatID for normal operation