# Instant View template for Telegram messenger
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/instant-view-template-for-telegram-messenger/62991
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [May 19, 2017, 1:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/instant-view-template-for-telegram-messenger/62991 "2017-05-19T01:39:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@meglio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meglio)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2017, 1:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/instant-view-template-for-telegram-messenger/62991/1 "2017-05-19T01:39:17Z")
This feature request is to develop instaview template for Discourse.
Instaview is a feature in Telegram messenger that allows for instant content view right in Telegram without opening a link in a browser.
Launch:
> **[Instant Views for Everyone & a $200K Contest](https://telegram.org/blog/instant-view-contest-200K)**
>
> Introducing the Instant View Platform and a $200K contest to make the entire internet available in the Instant View format.
Specs:
> **[Instant View Manual](https://instantview.telegram.org/docs)**
As a result, Discourse topics will be instantly previewable in Telegram messenger.
Once developed, I guess it will work for all Discourse setups as the basic HTML structure generated is always the same.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2017, 1:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/instant-view-template-for-telegram-messenger/62991/2 "2017-05-19T01:40:54Z")
How is this different than OpenGraph or oEmbed which we already support?
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2017, 1:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/instant-view-template-for-telegram-messenger/62991/3 "2017-05-19T01:46:55Z")
Is more like a Google Amp, but you create a set of rules that translates a webpage to their fast format.
Should be pretty easy, since one would start from the crawler view where HTML is pretty straightforward.
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### Author:  [@barreeeiroo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/barreeeiroo)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2017, 3:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/instant-view-template-for-telegram-messenger/62991/4 "2017-11-16T15:51:53Z")
Any news regarding this? [@team](https://meta.discourse.org/groups/team)
Is this going to be implemented in a short-term period?
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### Author:  [@itsbhanusharma](https://meta.discourse.org/u/itsbhanusharma)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2017, 4:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/instant-view-template-for-telegram-messenger/62991/5 "2017-11-16T16:07:25Z")
Very much into it! may really be a game changer for forums who have their user base an active user of telegram.
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### Author:  [@barreeeiroo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/barreeeiroo)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2018, 7:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/instant-view-template-for-telegram-messenger/62991/6 "2018-03-11T19:15:59Z")
> [@Falco](#):
>
> Should be pretty easy
So, is it in your road plan or not? 😅
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2018, 8:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/instant-view-template-for-telegram-messenger/62991/7 "2018-03-11T20:46:05Z")
No, this isn’t in the Discourse roadmap.
Also, this will never be a Discourse feature. It’s a bunch of parsing rules that lives in Telegram servers and must be submitted to their team for approval. And it’s a by domain thing, so every Discourse site would need to be submitted/approved.
So what someone from the community can do is create the rule for a topic page, and share it here on Meta so people who are interested can submit their sites using the same rules.
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2019, 4:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/instant-view-template-for-telegram-messenger/62991/8 "2019-04-09T04:17:20Z")
I created a **very basic** view that can render Discourse topics (only the OP).
Here is the ruleset if anyone wants to implement for their own website:
```xquery
~version: "2.1"
# Test so we work only on topic
?exists: /html/head/meta[@property="article:published_time"]
# Basic Data
body: /html/body/div/div/div[has-class("post")]
title: /html/body/div/h1/a
author: //b[@itemprop="author"]
author_url: //div[has-class("creator")]/span/a/@href
subtitle: //div[@id="breadcrumbs"]/div[last()]/a/span[last()]
image_url: //head/meta[@property="og:image"]/@content
# Telegram Compatibility
# img inside a is not allowed
@replace_tag(): //a[has-class("lightbox")]
# img inside p is not allowed, so inline emojis
: //img[has-class("emoji")]
# and put real images into the main body
@split_parent: //p/img
```
It looks like this:
 
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### Author:  [@AndreSpecker](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AndreSpecker)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2019, 1:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/instant-view-template-for-telegram-messenger/62991/10 "2019-10-08T13:37:56Z")
> [@Falco](#):
>
> I created a **very basic** view that can render Discourse topics (only the OP).
how i can use it in my discourse?
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### Author:  [@b4oshany](https://meta.discourse.org/u/b4oshany)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2021, 12:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/instant-view-template-for-telegram-messenger/62991/11 "2021-05-08T12:55:59Z")
I also wanted to know. How do I set this up?
@AndreSpecker, did you figure it out?