Create a telegram bot and record the token

Configure basic telegram settings

Option	Value	Description
enabled	true	Enables Telegram support
checkRole	false	Role check best left for later - you don’t want to deregister your test users!
token	[ “token” ]	Your discord bot
channels	Array of groups IDs where users can register in. Leave blank for first run - see below
admins	[ “yourid” ]	Array of IDs of administrators - leave blank for first run - see below

Find your identity

Start poracle.

Send a direct message to the bot with the text /identify - this should respond with something like This is a private message and your id is: [ xxxxxxxxxxxxx ]. This number is your telegram user id, and should go into the admins section of the configuration.

Create a group for your registration group

Create a group and invite your Poracle bot to the group. Now you can issue the /identify command to discover the ID number of the group. Note that this will be a negative number.

You add this number to the configuration as the registration channel. Members of this group will be able to send /poracle to register. Note that telegram also requires them to select the bot profile and select the ‘start bot’ option. This link reportedly will work https://t.me/name-of-your-bot?start to get them straight to the screen. Poracle provides an option to reply in-channel with a custom message on registration to help users with this part of a process

Group based tracking

Admins can register any group that the Poracle bot is a member of using the /channel add command. After that tracking commands can be issued and results will be sent to the group.