# Discourse Chat Integrations

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-chat-integrations/66522>\
**Category:** Plugin\
**Tags:** official, chat-integration, included-in-core\
**Created:** [July 20, 2017, 3:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-chat-integrations/66522 "2017-07-20T15:52:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![ErlendMS](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/erlendms/32/355598_2.png) [@ErlendMS](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ErlendMS)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2024, 10:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-chat-integrations/66522/305 "2024-01-18T10:25:27Z")

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I think I have the same _want_ as you, Aizada:

I’d love to be able to have a Telegram group chat, with _topics_ enabled (that somewhat correspond to the categories on Discourse), and then, in the Discourse/Chat integration settings, specify which topic it should post to.

I’ve tried to create a group chat with topics now (with just the bot and me), but when I type `/help` within a topic, the bot answers in the _general chat_.

**Have you looked into this @david?** I found [this Stack Overflow thread](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/74773675/how-to-get-topic-id-for-telegram-group-chat), that shows how to get the `message_thread_id` (which is the topic id) and says that the bot API got support for this in 6.3.

Thanks for your work anyway! 🫶🏻

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