Step 1
Talk to @BotFather in Telegram, run /newbot, and grab the bot token. Add the bot to the chat or group where you want submissions to land.
Integration · Telegram
Send form submissions to Telegram.
Send form submissions to Telegram as bot messages.
- 500 free / mo
- No credit card
- Live in minutes
Form submissions, routed automatically
splitforms connects your forms to Telegram and moves every submission across the moment it's received — no manual export, no copy-paste.
Your leads are never lost
Every submission is emailed to you and saved to a searchable dashboard, so the lead is captured even if Telegram is unreachable.
No per-integration fees
Connecting Telegram to your forms is included in your plan — no add-on charge and no per-message billing from splitforms.
Example: form markup
Send form submissions to Telegram from plain HTML.
The form posts to https://splitforms.com/api/submit. The Telegramrouting is configured in the splitforms dashboard against the form's access key — there's no client-side Telegram-specific code in your HTML.
<form action="https://splitforms.com/api/submit" method="POST">
<input type="hidden" name="access_key" value="YOUR_SPLITFORMS_KEY" />
<input type="hidden" name="_route" value="telegram" />
<input type="email" name="email" placeholder="you@example.com" required />
<textarea name="message" placeholder="Your message" required></textarea>
<button type="submit">Send to Telegram</button>
</form>How it works
How to send form submissions to Telegram.
Here's how to send form submissions to Telegram in 5 steps — no code required, and most teams finish in a couple of minutes.
Step 2
Send a message to the bot or group, then call https://api.telegram.org/bot<TOKEN>/getUpdates to find the chat ID.
Step 3
In splitforms, configure a webhook pointing at https://api.telegram.org/bot<TOKEN>/sendMessage with chat_id and text fields populated from the form payload (a small relay URL or Cloudflare Worker is the simplest approach).
Step 4
Test by submitting the form. The Telegram bot should deliver the message within ~1-2 seconds.
Step 5
Optional: format the message as Markdown for nicer field labels by setting parse_mode=MarkdownV2 in the relay payload.
How teams use it
How do teams send form submissions to Telegram?
Create a Telegram bot, point a paid-plan splitforms webhook at it, and every form submission arrives as a formatted Telegram message in your chat or group. Prefer a plainer destination? The same form can also send form submissions to email or forward them to any webhook.
- Delivered over an outbound webhook
- Solo indie devs running a side-project and getting contact form pings on their phone via Telegram instead of email.
- Small remote teams who use Telegram as their primary group chat tool.
Why splitforms
Do you need a separate tool to send form submissions to Telegram? No.
splitforms is free for 500 submissions per month, $5/mo on Pro, or $59 for a 3-year plan (15,000 submissions/month, 36 months of access), with no per-integration add-on fees.
- Sales reps in markets where Telegram is the dominant business chat channel (e.g. Eastern Europe, parts of MENA).
- Critical alert pipelines — a contact form on a status page firing into a Telegram group of on-call engineers.
- Two-way customer support flows where a Telegram group handles inbound questions submitted via a website form.
How SplitForms works
From form to workflow in 3 simple steps.
Connect your form, collect every submission, and send data where it needs to go — without building backend infrastructure.
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Point your form to your unique SplitForms endpoint. That's it.
Receive submissions
We instantly capture and organize every submission in your inbox.
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Common questions
Telegram form integration questions.
View all FAQsDoes splitforms talk directly to Telegram?
Telegram delivery uses the standard splitforms outbound webhook plus a tiny relay (a Cloudflare Worker, Vercel function, or any small HTTP endpoint) that translates the splitforms payload into a Telegram sendMessage call. We document the relay shape in our deep-dive guide; it's typically 20 lines of code.
Why a relay? Why not call api.telegram.org directly?
Telegram's sendMessage endpoint expects chat_id and text fields, while splitforms' webhook payload is a generic submission object. A 10-line relay translates between the two and lets you also format fields, choose the chat at runtime, or split a long submission across multiple messages.
What plan includes Telegram delivery?
Telegram delivery uses outbound webhooks, so it unlocks on Pro ($5/month) and above. The relay (if you build one) runs on your own infrastructure.
Can I deliver to a Telegram group rather than a single user?
Yes — add the bot to the group, then use the group's chat ID (which is a negative number) as the chat_id in the relay's sendMessage call. The bot needs permission to send messages in the group.
Will the bot token leak if I put it in a webhook URL?
splitforms encrypts webhook URLs at rest, but treating bot tokens as secrets matters anyway. If a token leaks, run /revoke on @BotFather to rotate it, then update the URL in splitforms. The leaked token is invalidated immediately.
Can I get attachments (e.g. resume uploads) into Telegram?
Yes — extend the relay to call sendDocument with the file URL splitforms includes in the webhook payload. Telegram caches the file once uploaded so subsequent forwards are fast.
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