Telegram

The Telegram namespace exposes configuration, lifecycle, user, notification, statistics, and preference resources. Most calls accept the OpenAlgo key in X-API-KEY, the apikey query parameter for GET, or the JSON body for POST.

Endpoint Inventory

Method	Path	Authentication	Current behavior
GET	/api/v1/telegram/config	API key	Returns configuration with the bot token masked
POST	/api/v1/telegram/config	API key	Updates accepted configuration fields
POST	/api/v1/telegram/start	API key	Initializes polling or webhook mode from stored config
POST	/api/v1/telegram/stop	API key	Stops the bot service
POST	/api/v1/telegram/webhook	Telegram secret header	Validates and acknowledges updates; dispatch is not implemented
GET	/api/v1/telegram/users	API key	Lists linked users, optionally filtered
POST	/api/v1/telegram/broadcast	API key	Validates request but currently reports zero deliveries
POST	/api/v1/telegram/notify	API key	Queues or synchronously sends one linked user's message
GET	/api/v1/telegram/stats	API key	Returns command statistics for 1 to 365 days
GET	/api/v1/telegram/preferences	API key	Reads preferences for a telegram_id
POST	/api/v1/telegram/preferences	API key	Updates supported preferences for a telegram_id

Direct Notification

curl -X POST 'http://127.0.0.1:5000/api/v1/telegram/notify' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "apikey": "<your_app_apikey>",
    "username": "openalgo-user",
    "message": "Strategy alert",
    "wait_for_delivery": false
  }'

username must already be linked to a Telegram ID. With the default asynchronous path, HTTP 200 means queued, not confirmed delivered. wait_for_delivery: true waits for an immediate attempt; a failed attempt is queued for retry and still returns a queued success message.

Webhook Authentication

Telegram sends X-Telegram-Bot-Api-Secret-Token. OpenAlgo compares it with TELEGRAM_WEBHOOK_SECRET, or with a token-derived fallback when the explicit secret is absent. Missing and incorrect headers return 401 and 403 respectively. Structurally valid updates are acknowledged with an empty HTTP 200 response, but process_webhook_update is not implemented in this RESTX handler.

Automatic Alert Gate

Order-event and Flow alerts check the persisted bot is_active state. Stopping the bot suppresses those automatic alerts. Explicit admin sends and /telegram/notify intentionally bypass that gate.

Rate Limits

Most Telegram resources use TELEGRAM_RATE_LIMIT (default 30 per minute). Broadcast is independently limited to 5 per minute.

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