--- title: "Connect Telegram to Chinese Text Project - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Update\" fires in Telegram, your agent runs \"Find texts by title\" in Chinese Text Project." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/telegram-to-chinese-text-project" --- # Connect Telegram to Chinese Text Project When **New Update** fires in [Telegram](https://apiant.ai/connections/telegram), your agent runs **Find texts by title** in [Chinese Text Project](https://apiant.ai/connections/chinese-text-project). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Telegram **1** trigger Telegram **14** actions Chinese Text Project **5** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Telegram and Chinese Text Project to do together? Give your AI client this address. `https://mcp.apiant.ai` One connection does both: ask your client to act in an app once, or have it build an automation that keeps running. Any client that takes a remote MCP server. Nothing to install. Create your free account, then sign in once in your browser. ### Set it up in your client ### Claude Code Run this in the directory you want to work in. `claude mcp add --transport http -s project apiant-ai https://mcp.apiant.ai` Start Claude Code there, approve the server, and sign in in the browser page it opens. [Claude Code guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp/claude-code) ### Claude, web and desktop Open Customize, then Connectors, then Add custom connector, and paste the address. On Team and Enterprise an owner adds it first. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Cursor Add the address to your MCP configuration as a server URL. Cursor signs you in in your browser. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Zed Open Settings, then AI, then MCP Servers, then Add Server, then Add Remote Server. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Codex and the ChatGPT desktop app Open Settings, then MCP servers, then Add server, and choose Streamable HTTP. From the terminal, Codex takes the address with its own add command and then signs you in. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Any other MCP client Paste the address where the client asks for a remote MCP server URL, and name the server apiant-ai where it lets you. APIANT's skills reach the client over the same connection. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) Telegram is where your reading group or classroom already talks, and Chinese Text Project holds the texts, dictionary entries and dynasty lists they keep reaching for. Connecting the two lets a bot answer messages in a chat by looking up a title, a character or a passage's metadata in Chinese Text Project and replying in the same conversation. Example flows ## What Telegram can start in Chinese Text Project - When **New Update** in Telegram then **Find texts by title** in Chinese Text Project - When **New Update** in Telegram then **List dictionary headwords** in Chinese Text Project Starting points drawn from the triggers and actions in the catalog today. Describe the flow you need, at any depth, and your agent builds it and tests every scenario before it ships. Everything your agent can do with Telegram and Chinese Text Project ## Triggers and actions 1 trigger · 19 actions - Trigger **New Update** Triggers when Telegram delivers an update to your bot. Choose which kind of update to watch — a new message, a button press, a membership change, and so on. Telegram allows one webhook per bot, so use a single New Update trigger per bot token. - Action **Ban Chat Member** Ban a user from a group, supergroup or channel. - Action **Delete Message** Delete a message from a chat. - Action **Forward Message** Forward an existing message from one chat to another. - Action **Get Chat** Get up-to-date information about a chat (user, group, or channel). - Action **Get Chat Member** Look up one person's membership in a chat — whether they are a member, an administrator, restricted, or have left or been banned. - Action **React to Message** Sets an emoji reaction on an existing message. - Action **Send Chat Action** Send a chat action (e.g. typing, upload_photo) to indicate the bot is doing something. - Action **Send Document** Send a general file/document to a chat. - Action **Send Location** Send a point on the map to a chat. - Action **Send Message** Sends a message from your bot. - Action **Send Photo** Sends a photo from your bot. - Action **Send Poll** Sends a poll from your bot. - Action **Send Video** Send a video to a chat. - Action **Update Message** Edit the text of a previously sent message. - Action **Find texts by title** Searches the textual database and wiki for items matching part or all of a given title. - Action **Get text info** Returns metadata (title, author, dynasty, etc.) about a textual object identified by its CTP URN. - Action **List dictionary headwords** Returns the complete list of headwords for distinct word senses, names, and places in the CTP dictionary. - Action **List dynasties** Returns a list of identifiers, labels, and dates for Chinese dynasties used in the Chinese Text Project. - Action **List texts** Returns the complete list of top-level textual items (books) in the textual database and wiki. ## Each app on its own - [ **Telegram** Telegram is a cloud-based instant messaging and voice over IP service developed by Telegram Messenger LLP.](https://apiant.ai/connections/telegram) - [ **Chinese Text Project** Chinese Text Project is an open-access digital library of pre-modern Chinese texts, covering the classical...](https://apiant.ai/connections/chinese-text-project) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Telegram - [ **Telegram to Aurora Inbox** Aurora Inbox transforms your business WhatsApp into an intelligent sales hub.](https://apiant.ai/connect/telegram-to-aurora-inbox) - [ **Telegram to Base44** Base44 is a platform that allows non-technical people to build their own Apps using AI.](https://apiant.ai/connect/telegram-to-base44) - [ **Telegram to BlazePhoenix** BlazePhoenix is an on-chain decentralized-exchange aggregator.](https://apiant.ai/connect/telegram-to-blazephoenix) - [ **Telegram to Brazil CNPJ** Query Brazilian companies by CNPJ with full Receita Federal registry data, no key required](https://apiant.ai/connect/telegram-to-brazil-cnpj) - [ **Telegram to Galileo** Galileo is a tool that turns text into beautiful UI designs instantly with Galileo AI—fast, smart, and ready...](https://apiant.ai/connect/telegram-to-galileo) - [ **Telegram to GoTranscript** GoTranscript specializes in providing top-tier transcription services, transcribing both audio and video...](https://apiant.ai/connect/telegram-to-gotranscript) ## More into Chinese Text Project - [ **HubSpot to Chinese Text Project** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-chinese-text-project) - [ **Salesforce to Chinese Text Project** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-chinese-text-project) - [ **Slack to Chinese Text Project** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. 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From there the agent can call Chinese Text Project actions like Find texts by title, Get text info, Get character, List texts, List dictionary headwords or List dynasties. ### ### What happens if a lookup returns nothing? You decide the wording, for example only send the metadata message when Find texts by title returns a match and otherwise reply that nothing was found. The agent tests every scenario, including the case where the title has no match, before it keeps the workflow running. ### ### What can start an automation from Telegram? Any of Telegram's 1 trigger in the catalog, including New Update. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Chinese Text Project when something happens in Telegram? Any of Chinese Text Project's 5 actions, including Find texts by title, List dictionary headwords, List dynasties and List texts. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Chinese Text Project to Telegram? Chinese Text Project has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in Telegram. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads Chinese Text Project's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Telegram or Chinese Text Project? No. Both are in the catalog with their triggers and actions. You describe the automation; your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. ### ### Can my AI client use Telegram and Chinese Text Project without building an automation? Yes. With your AI client connected to APIANT, ask it to do something in either app once and it runs that action on the spot. Ask for an automation and your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. One connection covers both. ### ### What happens when something fails? Your agent works that out for you. It plans the failure paths along with the happy path, then tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Is there a free plan? Yes. Every plan includes the agent, including free, and building from your own AI client spends no assistant credits.