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title: "Automate Telegram with an AI agent · mobilerun"
description: "Automate Telegram on a real phone with real-device identity. Monitor channels you follow, extract posts on a schedule, and run first-party messaging."
url: "https://mobilerun.ai/apps/telegram"
category: "Messaging"
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# Automate Telegram on a real phone.

Your agent drives the real Telegram app on a real phone with genuine hardware identity. It monitors channels you follow, pulls new posts on a schedule, and runs your account.

## What agents do in Telegram.

- **Monitor channels you follow**: Point your agent at the channels you follow. It opens each in the real app and reports what changed, so you skip the scroll.
- **Extract new posts on a schedule**: Run a scheduled pass that pulls fresh posts since the last check and returns clean, structured text for digests and research.
- **Set up and run your own account**: Register your number, complete OTP on-device, and message people who expect you. Real hardware, first-party from first tap.

## Why a real phone.

Telegram is built for real people. A mobilerun real phone runs real Android and iOS, passes the checks real apps run. Drive it with a real number and setup, OTP, and messages deliver reliably.

- Real hardware, real device and agent identity: a real number on a phone that passes the checks real apps run, so setup and first-party messages land reliably.
- Any model, any way to call it: drive the real phone from your own agent over API, SDK, or MCP, or hand it to a chat VA.
- Reads the accessibility tree, up to ~90% cheaper than vision-only, and runs pay as you go, stateful on request, so a monitor bills only while it works.

## Example tasks

- Open Telegram, view recent chats, send a quick reply, and attach a photo
- Open my Saved Messages, pin an important note, and confirm it stays on top
- Scroll my own channel and export every new post since yesterday as JSON
- Search my support chats, mark unread threads important, and summarize each one

## FAQ

**Can I automate Telegram with an AI agent?**

Yes. mobilerun runs the real Telegram app on a real phone your AI agent drives via API, SDK, or MCP. It monitors channels you follow, extracts new posts on a schedule, and sets up and runs your own account.

**Does it read as a normal user's phone?**

Yes. Each real phone passes the checks real apps run. It taps through the real app with a real number, and setup, OTP, and messages deliver as expected.

**What Telegram tasks fit best?**

Monitoring public channels you subscribe to, pulling new posts into structured text on a schedule, and running setup and messaging from your own account. It is built for first-party, ToS-clean automation.

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Source: https://mobilerun.ai/apps/telegram