# How to link your community to the discourse app? **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-link-your-community-to-the-discourse-app/79953 **Category:** Support **Created:** [February 6, 2018, 9:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-link-your-community-to-the-discourse-app/79953 "2018-02-06T21:32:31Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 5
### Author: ![Ivan\_Rapekas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ivan_rapekas/32/248924_2.png) [@Ivan\_Rapekas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ivan_Rapekas) #### Post date: [February 7, 2018, 8:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-link-your-community-to-the-discourse-app/79953/5 "2018-02-07T08:43:40Z")
> [@MAR](#): > > Does discourse also integrate to messenger type apps like telegram or WhatsApp? There are the following relevant topics on Telegram connectivity desire. As far as I know, it is chosen by developers rather than Whatsapp, because only Telegram provides complete API. This question is important for me too, therefore I would like to post these links here. > [@Telegram Notifications Plugin (discourse-telegram-notifications)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/telegram-notifications-plugin-discourse-telegram-notifications/60483): > > [Discourse Telegram Notifications Plugin](https://github.com/davidtaylorhq/discourse-telegram-notifications) This plugin allows users to receive their notifications via a Telegram bot, allowing them to turn off email notifications and still keep up-to-date. success You can “like” posts, and respond to them via the bot. Here’s a quick demo video: Before Starting Your forum must be using HTTPS, and have force\_https turned on Your forum must be accessible to the internet, not only an internal network (in development, give [ngrok](https://ngrok.com/) a try). Getting t… > [@Set up Telegram integration using the discourse-chat-integration plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-up-telegram-notifications-using-the-discourse-chat-integration-plugin/66603): > > This #howto describes how to setup the Telegram provider included in discourse-chat-integration. Enable the plugin The discourse-chat-integration plugin is bundled with Discourse. If you haven’t already, follow the [main plugin instructions](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chatroom-integration-plugin-discourse-chat-integration/66522) to enable it. Setup Telegram Talk to the [Telegram “Botfather”](https://telegram.me/botfather) robot and setup a new bot. [detailed instructions here](https://core.telegram.org/bots#how-do-i-create-a-bot) Make sure to copy the token that the BotFather gives you. It will look something like this:110201543:AAHdqTcvCH1vGWJxfSeofSAs0K5PALDsaw … [https://meta.discourse.org/t/paid-adding-whatsapp-share-feature/78571?u=ivan\_rapekas](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paid-adding-whatsapp-share-feature/78571) > [@Create topics from a posts to Telegram group](https://meta.discourse.org/t/post-messages-from-a-telegram-group-to-a-discourse-category/54319): > > With the new [IFTTT Telegram channel](http://ifttt.com/telegram) I’ve managed to set up an applet so everyone in a Telegram group can create new topics in a discourse category just by texting on the Telegram group. Why? Because real time communications are noisy and most of the times you forget about the interesting stuff you share there. We wanted a way to “store” the relevant messages so we can elaborate or discuss asynchronously later. What would you need? An [IFTTT](http://ifttt.com/) account. A Telegram account and group (obviously) A d… --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-link-your-community-to-the-discourse-app/79953)._