Bring your website’s RSS or Atom feed into the group where your community already talks. Every new article, release note or product arrives as a message people can reply to — automatically, without anyone remembering to paste a link.
A Telegram group is not a smaller channel. It is a room. Messages from your automation land in the middle of a conversation between real people, and the person who posted three minutes before you will see your message as an interruption or as a contribution depending entirely on what you sent and how often you send it.
That single difference should shape every decision you make here. On a channel, volume is mostly a question of taste — subscribers who do not like the frequency mute or leave. In a group, an automated message that nobody wanted pushes down a discussion somebody was having, and the cost is paid by the members who are most active. Groups punish carelessness far faster than channels do.
The upside is proportional. When a group receives an article that its members actually wanted, the replies start under it. You learn what people think within minutes, and the thread itself becomes content that keeps the group alive between publications. No channel gives you that.
The mechanics are close to the channel setup, and if you have already automated a channel most of this will look familiar. What differs is the thinking about permissions and frequency, covered further down.
Telegram publishing works through the Bot API, not through a login. Open the group, go to its members list, add the PostRSS bot and promote it to administrator with permission to send messages. Your own account credentials are never involved at any point, and the bot can only do what its administrator rights permit.
If your group has privacy mode active — the Telegram default for bots — the bot still sends messages normally; privacy mode restricts what a bot can read, not what it can post.
In PostRSS, each destination you publish to is a Target. Add the group as one. A single PostRSS account can hold as many Targets as your plan allows, so a group, a channel and a Facebook Page can all run side by side from the same content.
Paste your RSS or Atom feed address. WordPress sites expose one at the domain followed by /feed/, and every category and tag has its own — /category/releases/feed/, for instance, which is often exactly what a group wants rather than the whole blog. Shopify, Ghost, Substack, Blogger, PrestaShop, OpenCart, every podcast host and every YouTube channel produce feeds too.
This is the step people skip, and it is the one that decides whether the group tolerates the automation. Set the filters and the schedule now, not after the first complaint. The rest of this page is mostly about how to choose them.
Almost no group wants a whole blog. A support group for one product wants release notes and documentation updates, not marketing posts. A regional community wants the local news, not the national feed. A developer group wants changelogs.
PostRSS applies filters to the feed before anything is sent. You can limit a Target to specific categories or tags, require a keyword in the title, or exclude one. The practical effect is that a site publishing forty posts a month might send four of them to a particular group — and those four are welcome precisely because the other thirty-six never arrived.
A useful test before enabling anything: look at the last month of your feed and count how many items would have passed your filter. If the answer is more than about eight for a general-interest group, tighten the filter or move that volume to a channel instead. Groups have a much lower tolerance than most people estimate.
You can also run several Targets from one feed with different rules, which is how a single site serves a releases group, an announcements channel and a regional group without publishing three times.
PostRSS checks your feed every 5 minutes on every plan, and every 1 minute on Enterprise. That is how fast something can arrive; it is rarely how fast it should.
Two scheduling problems matter in groups. The first is bursts: an editorial team that publishes six articles on a Tuesday morning will, without scheduling, fire six notifications into the group inside two minutes. The second is time zones — a group whose members are mostly in one country does not benefit from a 03:00 message that is buried by morning.
PostRSS’s scheduling controls let you constrain when a Target may publish. Items found outside the window are held and released inside it, which turns a burst into a sequence and keeps overnight publishing out of everyone’s notifications. The feed checking does not change; only the release does.
If you take one thing from this page, take this: in a group, restraint is the feature. A message every other day that people read beats five a day that people mute.
PostRSS sends the item’s title together with a link to the original page. Telegram then builds the preview card itself, reading the destination page’s open-graph tags — the image, the title and the description your site already declares for sharing.
This means the appearance of your automated group messages is controlled by your website. If a message arrives without an image, the article is missing an og:image, or the image is too large, or a CDN rule is blocking Telegram’s fetcher. Fixing it at the source fixes every network at once, because Facebook, LinkedIn and X read the same tags.
Telegram also caches previews. If you correct an image and the old one keeps appearing, that is the cache rather than the automation; it clears by itself, and a changed image URL bypasses it immediately.
Telegram’s forum mode splits a group into topics, which large communities use heavily — one topic for support, one for off-topic, one for announcements. It is worth being deliberate about this before automating, because an automated stream landing in the general topic of a busy forum group is exactly the interruption discussed above.
The clean arrangement is a dedicated topic for published content, so the automation has its own space and the conversation about an article happens as replies inside it. Members who want the content see it; members who are there for support are not pushed past it.
The two destinations are complementary, and many PostRSS accounts run both.
A channel broadcasts. Subscribers receive, nobody replies, reach is not rationed by any algorithm, and volume can be higher because the format sets that expectation. It suits announcements, article feeds, product drops and podcast episodes — see autoposting to Telegram channels for how that side works.
A group discusses. Fewer items, chosen more carefully, each one an invitation to respond.
Telegram also lets you attach a discussion group to a channel, so every channel post appears in the group automatically with a comment thread. If that is the structure you want, automate the channel and let Telegram do the rest — you do not need a second Target, and you avoid the duplicate messages that come from automating both with the same feed.
In PostRSS terms, whichever way you arrange it, each destination is one Target and each message is one Task against your plan’s monthly allowance.
Groups usually have several administrators, and that is the source of most silent failures. The PostRSS bot must stay an administrator with permission to send messages. If someone tidies the admin list, or narrows the bot’s rights, publishing stops — the feed is still being read and PostRSS still has your content, but Telegram refuses the send.
Write down somewhere your moderators can find it that the bot is part of the group’s infrastructure. The person who removes it is rarely the person who set it up.
Slow mode is the other one worth knowing. If a group enables slow mode, message rate is limited for everyone, and an automation releasing several items at once will be throttled. Scheduling avoids the collision entirely by spreading releases.
Check the bot’s administrator rights first — this is the cause most of the time. Then check that the feed itself actually updated; a caching plugin serving a stale copy looks identical to a broken automation from the outside.
That is a filter working as configured. Review the category, tag and keyword rules on the Target before assuming a fault.
No schedule is set on the Target, so everything found in one feed check goes out together. Add a publishing window.
Compare the timestamps against your own publication time. Under five minutes is the feed-check interval behaving normally. Hours means the feed is cached; PostRSS can only read what your server serves.
Open the article and inspect its open-graph tags. Telegram renders what the page declares.
Some sources work better here than on a broadcast channel, because of the reply dynamic.
Release notes and changelogs are close to ideal: people have questions about them, and the questions are answered in the thread rather than in support tickets. Documentation updates behave the same way. Long-form articles work when the group’s subject matches the article’s; they fall flat when the feed is a general blog.
Podcast episodes are a good fit for a listener group — the episode arrives, and the discussion under it is often more valuable than the episode page’s own comments. Every podcast is already an RSS feed, so no extra setup is needed. The same applies to YouTube channels, which expose a feed keyed to the channel ID.
Product feeds are the one category to be careful with. A shop pushing every new item into a community group reads as advertising very quickly. Filter hard, or use a channel.
Telegram shows member counts, and in groups the number that actually matters is participation rather than size. Watch whether automated messages get replies. A message that consistently gets none is a message the group did not want, and the fix is the filter, not the frequency.
For traffic, add UTM parameters to the links so your analytics can separate Telegram from everything else. After a month you will know how many sessions the group sends and whether they behave differently from the rest of your audience — in communities, they usually do: fewer visits, longer ones.
Also watch what does not happen. If members stop posting after you automate, the automation is too loud. That signal appears before anybody complains.
Telegram is available from the Free plan, which is a permanent tier rather than a trial, so a single group can be automated at no cost. Each group you connect is one Target; each automated message is one Task. Paid plans raise both limits and add the other networks, and they are chosen on postrss.com.
Group automation is usually cheap in Task terms precisely because it is filtered: a group receiving four items a month costs four Tasks. The expensive Targets are high-volume channels, not groups.
Groups work best next to a broadcast destination rather than instead of one. The usual pairing is a Telegram channel for announcements and the group for the discussion underneath them. If your community is on Discord instead, a Discord channel covers the same ground, and a Matrix room does it on a homeserver you can run yourself.
If the feed you are sending is a company blog written by several people, multi-author blogs change what filtering needs to do — worth reading before you point a shared feed at a community.
No. Publishing runs through the Telegram Bot API, using a bot you add to the group as an administrator. Your own account credentials are never used, and removing the bot ends its access immediately.
Yes. What matters is that the bot is an administrator with permission to send messages; public or private makes no difference.
Yes — Telegram labels bot messages, as it does everywhere. In practice communities accept this readily when the content is relevant; the label is far less important than the filtering.
Yes, as two Targets, usually with different filters — tighter for the group, broader for the channel. If the group is attached to the channel as its discussion group, automate only the channel and let Telegram mirror the posts.
No. PostRSS publishes items appearing in the feed after the Target starts running, so connecting a feed never floods a group with old articles.
Two ways: pause the Target in PostRSS, or remove the bot’s posting rights in Telegram. Either stops publishing at once.
Pick the group you know best, choose the narrowest feed that still carries something its members asked for — a category feed rather than the whole site — and set a publishing window before you enable it. Watch the first two weeks for replies. If the threads appear, widen carefully; if they do not, narrow the filter rather than raising the volume. The Free plan is enough to run that experiment properly.
