How to schedule Telegram posts
In Telegram itself: hold the Send button, choose Schedule Message and pick a time. To plan posts from outside Telegram, or send them to other networks too, use a scheduler with a bot of your own.
In Telegram's own apps.
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Open the channel, group or chat, and write the message.
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Hold the Send button and choose Schedule Message.
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Pick the date and time. Telegram sends it then.
What it can't do:
- Reach past one chat. Each channel, group and chat keeps its own queue, so three channels mean scheduling it three times.
- Leave Telegram. The same post for another network is written and scheduled over there.
- Work for software. A bot has no scheduled messages of its own.
If you run one channel and post only to Telegram, this may be all you need.
With Postacio.
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Create a bot with @BotFather and copy its token.
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Add the bot to your channel as an admin who can post messages. In a group, it needs the right to send messages.
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Paste the token and the channel's @username or chat id into Postacio. It checks the bot can post before it keeps it.
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Write the post and pick a time. Your bot publishes it then.
What a scheduled post can hold:
- Text up to 4,096 characters a message. Past that, plain text becomes several messages; formatted text must fit in one.
- Photos and videos with a caption of up to 1,024 characters, and up to 10 in an album.
- Documents up to 50 MB, and polls with up to 12 options.
The same post can go to X, LinkedIn and YouTube at once. Postacio starts at $20 a month for 5 accounts, after a 14-day trial with no card.
Questions before you start.
Can a Telegram bot schedule a message by itself?
No. The Bot API's send methods have no date to send at: a bot posts the moment it is asked. A scheduler that uses a bot keeps your post and asks the bot to send it at the time.
Can I schedule posts to a Telegram channel without a bot?
Yes. Telegram's own scheduling works in a channel, a group or a chat, from your own account. You need a bot only if another tool is to do the posting.
Can I repeat a scheduled message?
Telegram lets Premium users repeat a scheduled message, from every day to every year. Postacio has no repeating posts: each one has its own time.
Checked 1 November 2026
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