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Post to Telegram from Claude Code

Claude Code can post to a channel on Telegram through ClipSpeed. Add the ClipSpeed server with one command, sign in, and then ask Claude Code to post to a channel, pick the time, and apply Telegram's settings, without leaving the terminal, VS Code and JetBrains. Telegram is on the roadmap on ClipSpeed's rail; this page describes how it works and says so.

On the roadmapVerified end to end

Start for $1 Setup guide

Keep a human in the loop: Claude Code shows the plan and asks before anything is public. Posting today: YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, X (Twitter) and LinkedIn.

Claude Code

Post the release note to the Telegram channel at 9am. Preview first.

Preview — nothing booked yet. Would schedule on: • Telegram — text up to 4,096 with a link preview Times are in America/New_York. Book it?

via ClipSpeed · Telegram

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How to post Telegram from Claude Code

One terminal command registers the server. Start a session, run /mcp to sign in to ClipSpeed in the browser tab that opens, and every tool is available. Connect Telegram in ClipSpeed, then describe the post. Setup takes about a minute.

setup once, then just ask

# One-time setup (OAuth, no API key)
claude mcp add --transport http clipspeed https://api.clipspeed.ai/mcp

# Then ask Claude Code:
> Post the release note to the Telegram channel at 9am
Claude Code: Preview — nothing booked yet. Telegram — text up to 4,096 with a link preview. Book it?

Servers load at session start. If the tools do not appear, run claude mcp list, then start a new session.

Run claude mcp add --transport http clipspeed https://api.clipspeed.ai/mcp in your terminal.
Start claude and run /mcp. Pick clipspeed and authenticate; a browser tab opens for the ClipSpeed sign-in. Approve it.
Ask it to list your channels. Claude Code calls list_channels and shows what is connected.
Connect Telegram in the ClipSpeed app, or ask Claude Code for a connect link: it is private, valid for ten minutes, and Telegram signs you in itself.

Developer reference: the Claude Code MCP page.

What can Claude Code do on Telegram?

On Telegram, Claude Code can post text, images and video to a Telegram channel through a bot. Every booking runs through the same rules as the ClipSpeed app.

Text, Image and Video posts

Telegram takes text, image and video through ClipSpeed. Video: MP4 up to 1 GB. Image: JPG or PNG up to 25 MB.

4,096 characters, checked at booking

Telegram's own arithmetic. Too long is refused with the real count, never trimmed at send time.

Exact time or refused

Name the minute and Claude Code books it, or you are told why not and offered the next open slot. A booked Telegram post is never moved behind your back.

Preview before anything posts

preview: true runs the whole booking and writes nothing. Claude Code shows the plan, with each slot and the day's remaining cap, and books only on your yes.

Clips cut in the same session

Submit a video or stream link, get captioned 9:16 clips with a viral score, and post the best as native video on Telegram. No download, no re-upload.

Pacing and numbers

Planned: Text posts on Telegram are at least 15 minutes apart, up to 20 a day. Video on Telegram is at least 1 hours apart, up to 10 a day under your plan. After a post goes out, Claude Code can read back views and engagement where Telegram provides them.

How does Claude Code post to Telegram through ClipSpeed?

You describe what you want in plain language and Claude Code makes the ClipSpeed calls. A typical conversation has three beats.

Find your Telegram channel

Ask Claude Code whether Telegram is connected. It calls list_channels and reads platform_settings, so it also knows what Telegram accepts and the limits before you write a word.

Is my Telegram account connected to ClipSpeed?

Telegram is on the roadmap on ClipSpeed; I can't book there yet. Your YouTube channel is connected if you'd like to use that.

Compose within the rules

Describe the post. Claude Code drafts within Telegram's limits; mention a clip or a file and it attaches it.

Draft a Telegram post about the launch with the best clip from the demo.

Here's the draft (3277/4,096): "…" Clip 2 (score 88) attached. Want me to schedule it?

Schedule or publish

Name a time, or say now. The slot is booked exactly or refused with the next open one, and the reply carries the id you can cancel or edit by.

Yes — tomorrow at 9am.

Scheduled on: • Telegram — Tue, 9:00 AM · id 7c2… Times are in America/New_York.

Telegram settings reference

These are the schedule_post fields that apply to Telegram. Mention any of them in plain language and Claude Code sets them; the server checks them at booking. Fields marked planned land with the Telegram release.

Field	Type	Required	What it does on Telegram
`platforms`	string[]	Yes	Include `"telegram"`. Up to ten platforms per call; each books its own slot.
`text`	string	Yes for a text post	Up to 4,096 characters for a message; a caption on media is capped at 1,024.
`media_kind`	text \| image \| video	No	Detected from the file when omitted.
`clip_id or media_url`	string	No	A ClipSpeed clip or a public link to an image or video.
`scheduled_at`	ISO 8601	No	Exact or refused with the next open slot.
`preview`	boolean	No	Plan only.

Common Telegram configurations

Ask Claude Code for any of these and it applies the matching settings.

Channel announcement

Post the release note to the Telegram channel at 9am

Got it. Applying: text up to 4,096 with a link preview

Clip with a caption

Send clip 2 to the channel at 6pm with the hook as the caption

Got it. Applying: clip_id · caption under 1,024

Image post

Send the chart to the channel now

Got it. Applying: media_url: PNG

Daily digest, previewed

Plan a 5pm digest post every weekday, show me first

Got it. Applying: preview: true

Example prompts for Telegram in Claude Code

Type these into the terminal, VS Code and JetBrains, or pass one to release.sh in a script. Claude Code calls ClipSpeed and confirms before publishing.

Just ask

Post Telegram with a scheduled time

Post the release note to the Telegram channel at 9am. Keep the text under 4,096 characters. Preview first.

Clips first

Cut the clips, then post the best

Clip this link, keep the top three by viral score, and schedule them to Telegram at 11am, 3pm and 7pm tomorrow. Show me the plan before booking.

Headless

From a script with Claude Code

claude -p "Summarise the changes since the last git tag as one Telegram post under 4,096 characters. Schedule it via ClipSpeed for today at 10am; preview first and book if nothing is refused."

Telegram limits and gotchas to know

Telegram enforces a few rules that Claude Code and ClipSpeed respect automatically, but knowing them helps you phrase requests.

Messages take up to 4,096 characters, but a caption on an image or video is capped at 1,024. Over either is refused at booking.
Posting goes through a bot that you add to the channel as an administrator; the bot can only post where it is an admin.
Telegram is on ClipSpeed's roadmap, not the next rail. Bookings are refused plainly until it posts.
Groups and private chats are not a scheduling target; channels are.
Planned pacing is generous because channels tolerate frequency: fifteen minutes between text posts.

Rule	Telegram
Accepts	Text, Image, Video
Text limit	4,096 characters (a media caption is capped at 1,024)
Title	No title field
Links in the caption	Kept with a link preview
Pacing	Planned: Text posts on Telegram are at least 15 minutes apart, up to 20 a day. Video on Telegram is at least 1 hours apart, up to 10 a day under your plan.
Formats	Image: JPG or PNG up to 25 MB. Video: MP4 up to 1 GB. Aspect: any
Status	On the roadmap; described here, not yet bookable

What Postiz-style schedulers cannot do

Cut the clips first

Claude Code does not need finished video to start. Hand it a YouTube link, a podcast, a stream VOD or a local export. ClipSpeed finds the moments, cuts them to 9:16 with word-by-word captions, scores each one 0 to 100 for shareability, and returns them in the same conversation. Claude Code picks by score, writes the caption from the transcript, and books the clips on Telegram. Three tool calls, one approval, no download and no re-upload.

Clips arrive with a title written from the hook, a transcript and a viral score, so the agent can choose and caption without watching the footage.
Live streams can be clipped while they are still on air; the agent books the highlights for the next morning before the stream ends.
Every clip is already hosted, so schedule_post takes its id directly. Nothing moves through your laptop.

submit_to_clipspeedPaste the link. ClipSpeed starts the job and returns a project id.

check_clipsPoll with the project id. Back come the finished 9:16 clips with titles, transcripts, viral scores and preview links.

schedule_postPass the clip id, the platforms, a caption and a time. Claude Code shows the plan with preview: true, you say yes, it books.

generate_image or generate_videoDescribe the shot. ClipSpeed runs it on the model that fits (Seedance, Kling, Veo, Nano Banana Pro, GPT Image and others) and quotes the credits first.

wait_for_generationReturns the hosted result link and a preview the agent can show you.

schedule_post with media_urlThe result link goes straight into the booking on Telegram. The caption, the time and the file are approved together.

The other half nobody else has

Generate the image or video, then post it

A product shot for Instagram, a 16:9 announcement graphic for X, a six-second opener before a clip: Claude Code can make an image or a short video with ClipSpeed's image and video models and book the result in the same reply. There is no separate design tool, no export, no upload page. The generated file is hosted, so media_url is the only thing the booking needs.

The price in credits is quoted before anything renders, within the per-generation and daily caps you set in Settings.
Results are previewed in the conversation, so you approve the picture and the post at once.
Images post as JPG, PNG or WebP up to 25 MB; video posts as MP4, MOV or WebM up to 1 GB.

What is Claude Code?

Claude Code is Anthropic's agentic coding tool. It runs in your terminal, with extensions for VS Code and JetBrains, reads your codebase, runs commands and calls MCP tools to finish multi-step work. With ClipSpeed registered as an MCP server, it can also clip a video, generate images and video, and schedule posts to your connected platforms from the same session, or from a script with claude -p.

How ClipSpeed works with Claude Code

claude mcp add registers the HTTP server; /mcp in a session completes the OAuth sign-in
Claude Code discovers the ClipSpeed tools at session start and chains them: submit_to_clipspeed → check_clips → schedule_post
platform_settings is read before composing so X's 280 and YouTube's 100-character title are met the first time
A time you name is booked exactly or refused with the next open slot; a taken slot is never silently moved
Works with Claude.ai, Console, Bedrock and Vertex AI accounts; the ClipSpeed sign-in is separate and OAuth

Claude Code vs Claude Cowork vs the Claude connector: Claude Code (terminal, vs code, jetbrains), Claude Cowork (claude desktop), Claude (claude.ai) (browser, desktop, mobile). This page is about Claude Code; the Claude Code guide compares them.

terminal

# Register the server (OAuth; sign in with /mcp inside a session)
claude mcp add --transport http clipspeed https://api.clipspeed.ai/mcp

# No browser on this machine? Use an API key header instead
export CLIPSPEED_API_KEY="csai_live_..."
claude mcp add --transport http clipspeed https://api.clipspeed.ai/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $CLIPSPEED_API_KEY"

# Verify
claude mcp list
claude "List my connected ClipSpeed channels"

tool list (abridged)

# What the agent reads at connect time (tool descriptions, abridged)
list_channels           Connected platforms, what each accepts, limits, your time zone
connect_channel         A private 10-minute link to connect one platform
platform_settings       Limits, title rules, link handling, pacing per platform
schedule_post           clip_id | text | media_url → platforms[], scheduled_at, preview
list_scheduled_posts    Scheduled, sending, posted, failed — with post links
update_scheduled_post   Edit copy while still scheduled (the time never moves)
cancel_scheduled_post   Cancel; undoable 72 h in the app
post_analytics          Views, likes, comments, shares where the platform gives them
submit_to_clipspeed     Start clipping a video or stream link → projectId
check_clips             Finished 9:16 clips with titles, transcripts, viral scores
generate_image / generate_video / wait_for_generation

# Telegram: text/image/video · text 4,096

Post to Telegram and other platforms from Claude Code

One request can book the same content to Telegram and other channels, each keeping its own settings and its own slot. Every platform below has its own Claude Code guide.

Post the launch to Telegram and Discord tomorrow at 9am, then a daily tip on Discord every weekday at 10am. Preview first.

Preview — nothing booked yet: • Telegram — Tue 9:00 AM (refused: on the roadmap) • Discord — Tue 9:00 AM (refused: on the roadmap) • Discord daily tips — Mon–Fri 10:00 AM Book it?

Post to Discord from Claude Code →Post to Slack from Claude Code →Post to X (Twitter) from Claude Code →Upload to YouTube from Claude Code →Post to Mastodon from Claude Code →Every platform for Claude Code →Telegram scheduler features →

Also works with

CLPost to Telegram from Claude →CHPost to Telegram from ChatGPT →CDPost to Telegram from Claude Desktop →COPost to Telegram from Codex →

Telegram and Claude Code: frequently asked questions

How do I post to Telegram from Claude Code?

Run claude mcp add --transport http clipspeed https://api.clipspeed.ai/mcp in your terminal. Start claude and run /mcp. Pick clipspeed and authenticate; a browser tab opens for the ClipSpeed sign-in. Approve it. Connect Telegram in ClipSpeed (or ask Claude Code for a connect link; it is private and valid for ten minutes), then describe the post in plain language. Claude Code reads the Telegram rules, drafts within them, shows the plan and books on your yes. Telegram is on the roadmap; until the badge changes, the booking is refused with a plain message.

What can Claude Code post to Telegram through ClipSpeed?

Post text, images and video to a Telegram channel through a bot. Telegram takes text, image and video posts. Text is limited to 4,096 characters.

Which Telegram settings can Claude Code control?

The fields in the settings reference above: text, media_kind, clip_id or media_url, scheduled_at, preview. Mention any of them in plain language ("unlisted", "tomorrow at 9", "preview first") and Claude Code sets the matching field before it books.

Do I need a Telegram API key or developer account?

No. You connect Telegram to ClipSpeed once through Telegram's own sign-in, and Claude Code talks to ClipSpeed over OAuth. No Telegram developer key, bearer token or password is pasted anywhere.

How many Telegram posts a day can Claude Code schedule?

Planned: Text posts on Telegram are at least 15 minutes apart, up to 20 a day. Video on Telegram is at least 1 hours apart, up to 10 a day under your plan. When a time is taken, the booking is refused with the next open slot rather than moved. Ask for preview to see a day's plan and the remaining cap before anything is booked.

Can Claude Code post to Telegram from a script or a cron job?

Yes. Claude Code's headless mode (release.sh) runs one prompt and exits, and the ClipSpeed server registered on that machine does the booking. On a runner with no browser, authenticate with a ClipSpeed API key header. Keep preview on so the run reports a plan before it books.

Is posting to Telegram from Claude Code different from Claude Cowork?

The booking is identical: the same rules, the same calendar, the same refusals. What differs is where you work. Claude Code: terminal, vs code, jetbrains; headless with claude -p. Claude Cowork: claude desktop, works with local folders and desktop apps, no terminal.