Integrations and settings

Integration with OpenAI

The bot can use external services to enrich its functionality. The first integration we are launching is the ability to use OpenAI (ChatGPT and other models) to process Telegram messages.

The OpenAI API allows you to describe in plain language the action you want to perform with the text or image from a Telegram message from the source. Then, the bot sends the AI a message and your instructions, and publishes the processing result to the destination.

Popular use cases include:

language translation,
long text analysis and summarization,
smart filtering,
changing numbers in text based on specified criteria,
image to text translation,
image analysis,
and more.

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Enabling OpenAI integration

Enable OpenAI API call:

Where to find

Menu → My forwards → Select source and destination → Modification → Integrations

Since the OpenAI API is a paid product, we provide two payment scenarios: from your balance in the bot or self-payment on the OpenAI platform. The general advice is that if you just plan to experiment with AI, it is easier to use payment from the balance. If you plan to use OpenAI on a regular basis to process large amounts of data, it will be more profitable for you to create your own account on OpenAI.

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Payment from balance

This payment mode is the simplest. It is used by default and does not require any additional actions from you. Just activate the OpenAI API call in the redirect settings and set the desired parameters. After each successful use of the API, we receive the cost of the call in OpenAI API tokens along with the result and will deduct it from your balance in accordance with the rates below.

Token cost for different models

gpt-4-turbo — 0.02 EUR for 1000 input tokens, 0.06 EUR for 1000 output tokens
‍gpt-4 — 0.06 EUR for 1000 input tokens, 0.12 EUR for 1000 output tokens
‍gpt-3.5-turbo — 0.002 EUR for 1000 input tokens, 0.004 EUR for 1000 output tokens

We are constantly adding new models, the list may not be complete.

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‍The minimum withdrawal amount is 0.01 EUR.

For example, translating a 1000-character post (this is approximately 500 input and 500 output tokens) with the gpt-4-turbo model will cost 0.03-0.05 EUR. With the gpt-4o-mini model — 0.01 EUR.

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Payment from your OpenAI account

You can register on the OpenAI platform yourself, purchase a paid subscription and create your API key. Next, you need to enter this key in Menu → Settings → OpenAI. If you have an API key in your settings, the bot will use your OpenAI account and no additional payments will be required in the bot itself.

Important: for your key to work, at least one payment method must be connected to your OpenAI account. Also note that an account on the OpenAI platform and an account in the ChatGPT chat are different things.

Advantages: it is cheaper than paying from the pro balance; also, you have access to usage statistics.
Disadvantages: you need to make sure that your OpenAI account is paid and has enough credits.

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OpenAI Chat

You can enable message processing through the OpenAI Chat service in Menu → My forwarding → Select source and destination → Integrations.

The following settings are available:

- Prompt template

A prompt is a text containing commands for the AI. Since your prompt will most likely consist of both your instructions and the text of the message being processed, a template allows you to conveniently combine them. You can enter any text describing your task as a template, and then the bot will add the text of the message being processed to the place in the text where the _${body} variable is specified. In the simplest case, just describe your task and add _${body} at the end. See usage examples.

- Model

Models differ in cost, intelligence, and some other features. The cheapest model gpt-4o-mini is suitable for most tasks. You can read more about the different models here.

- Creativity

This parameter is also called "temperature". The higher the temperature, the more artistic the answer will be. The lower the temperature, the more "scientific" the answer will be, accurate, and factual. For most tasks, this parameter can be left equal to 0.7.

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Use examples

Translation

You can create automatic mirrors of your channel in several languages at once. To do this, set up copying from the original channel to channels in the corresponding languages and set the corresponding instructions for the AI in the integration settings.

Prompt template:
_{Translate the following text into Russian:
${body}}

Model and creativity can be left by default.

Filtering

You can use AI as a smart filter. It will analyze the text and give the go-ahead for publication according to your criteria. Since regular filters are applied before AI processing, you first need to create a redirect to an intermediate channel with the following parameters:

Prompt template:
_{If the following text mentions a probability of success of the deal equal to or greater than 90%, then reply to me with this text without changes. If not, reply to me with the message "copying is not required".
${body}}

Model and creativity can be left by default.

Then configure forwarding from the intermediate to the final channel, setting the usual filters not to pass messages with the text _{copying is not required}.

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Other bot settings

Bot interface language

To change the bot interface language, use the _/language command.

Available languages: English and Russian.

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Import and export settings

Using the _/dump command, you can upload to all current subscriptions, redirects and related settings in the form of a file. The file will be a list of commands for the bot.

You can execute some or all of these commands in one list using the _/batch command. To do this, send the bot a list of commands starting with the _/batсh command, where each line contains a separate command.

Please note that when you send a very long text to Telegram, it is split into several messages. In this case, the bot will only process the commands in the first message (starting with _/batch). To process such a very long list of commands, you will need to send it yourself in several messages, making sure that each such message begins with the _/batch command.

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