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Guide · 6 steps

Connect your channel and start autoposting

Six steps from sign-up to posts that go out on their own.

  1. Step 1

    Create an account

    Press Sign up and use email, Telegram or Google.

    Signed up with email? Open the link in our email and press Continue.

    The Autogram sign-up form
  2. Step 2

    Add the bot to your channel

    Press Connect a channel on the home page, or open Channels → Internal channels → Create. Then press Add the bot to a channel →, pick your channel in Telegram and confirm.

    @autogram_posting_bot needs three rights: post messages, edit messages, and delete messages.

    No channel yet? Create one in Telegram first.

    Connect the bot to your channel

    Asked to Link your Telegram account? Press Open Telegram and tap Start, from the Telegram account that admins the channel.

    Telegram's Add Admin screen with the Autogram bot
  3. Step 3

    Connect the channel

    Back in Autogram, find your channel under Channels ready to connect and press Connect.

    Not in the list? Under Can't see your channel?, use Send a post to the bot or Paste a link.

    The connect window with a channel ready to connect
  4. Step 4 · Optional

    Send your first post

    Pick a news item or write with AI. Then press Publish now, Schedule or Save as draft.

    Not now also skips the quick setup in the next step. You can create an automation later in Automation → Tasks.

    The first post window with a news item picked
  5. Step 5

    Turn on autoposting

    The Set it to run automatically window opens next. Make three choices and press Start posting.

    What should it post?
    Post from the feedWrite with AI
    What happens next
    Post it for meSave as a draft
    How often
    Every dayWeekdaysOnce a week
    Time
    Times use the timezone from your profile.

    With Write with AI, describe your topic in What should Autogram write about?, or press Use an example.

    The window that sets up the first automation
  6. Step 6

    Done

    Autogram shows Your automation is set up: what it will post, and when.

    Your posts are in All posts. Edit, pause or run automations in Automation → Tasks.

    The summary of the new automation

Extra

Make AI posts sound like your channel

Open Channels → Internal channels → Edit → AI and set Tone, Target audience and Brand guidelines.

AI drafts that you write by hand follow them. For an automation that posts to one channel, add {{channel_tone}}, {{channel_audience}}, or {{channel_brand_guidelines}} to its AI instruction.

Make AI posts sound like your channel
The AI tab of the channel settings

Something went wrong?

My channel is not in the list

Check that the bot is an admin (step 2). Then, under Can't see your channel?, use Send a post to the bot or Paste a link.

Add the Autogram bot as an admin of this Telegram channel, then retry.

Repeat step 2 and keep all three rights on.

Only Telegram admins of this channel can connect it to Autogram.

Link the Telegram account that admins the channel. In the connect window, press Use a different Telegram account.

Still stuck?

Open Support → Submit request, or write to support@autogram.ninja.

Ready to start?

Create an account and connect your channel.

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