Telegram - Notifications

[shogi4fun]

Hi,

how about notifications with telegram?
I can help implementing it, if there is any need.

I also wrote this almost two weeks ago as email to BGA, but didn't got any answer yet.

Information if needed: http://telegram.org
telegram is like WhatsApp
- it's free and addfree
- for Android, iPhone/iPad, WP, PC, Mac, Linux and also as Web-version available (all are synchronized!)
- open interface for writing clients and bots
That's the most important things for me.

Bye,
BCM

[polettix]

Maybe this is not interesting (or was not three years ago), maybe people would start using it when it's there but don't get the value now.

In the meantime... I can suggest a little clunky but effective solution that I've adopted to this regard:

* I use gmail to get all notifications
* I set an automatic forward of "It is your turn!" messages to an email address in Mailgun (which gives you a free account with some free resources, so everything is for free for my purposes)
* In Mailgun, I set a receive route that basically turns the incoming forwarded email into a POST call to a webservice I set up elsewhere
* Last, the webservice receives the mail message (via HTTP POST), parses the subject line and sends a message with the link to the table in Telegram.

I guess that you might take some shortcuts (e.g. by setting up an email reception server) but using Mailgun allowed me to get started very quickly and enjoy Telegram notifications

It might also help to be able and set different email addresses for normal site operations and notifications, just to skip a step.

I'll probably post an article on this, I can put the link here if it's of interest.

[polettix]

I have a proof of concept that can be shared - until it breaks (there is a limit on the number of messages I can handle for free monthly)

• open chat with bot @bga_notifier_bot - https://telegram.me/bga_notifier_bot

• just write anything, it will answer with an email address

• in your email, forward messages from noreply@boardgamearena.com with subject containing either "It is your turn!" or "End of game." to that email address

• if you have to provide confirmation for that email address (e.g. gmail asks for it), you will get the text of the confirmation email as a message from the bot inside Telegram

• after the forwarding is setup, every notification for either turn or end game will generate a message from the bot, with a link to the relevant table

Hope you will enjoy this!

[CB Droege]

The site has mobile and web notifications natively now. ;D