How to connect Claude Code with Telegram?

Your Claude Code now texts you on Telegram (Setup in 10 minutes)

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Claude’s team keeps updating Claude Code.

And with the recent features, Claude Code becomes similar to OpenClaw.

Now, you can talk to your Claude Code from your phone.

Via Telegram or Discord.

In this one, let’s discover Telegram.

How to connect Claude Code with Telegram?

Step 0: Install Claude Code

Open your terminal.

And Install the Claude Code.

Windows

irm https://claude.ai/install.ps1 | iex

Mac

curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | bash

Tips: If you don’t know how to use it, check out my masterclass.

After installing, here is the code to initiate the Claude.

claude

And here you go.

Claude Code

If you want to use Claude Code locally and for free, with an adjustment, read this one.

Step 1: Create Telegram Bot (BotFather)

1. Open Telegram and search for Botfather.

2. Create new bot with this command: /newbot

3. Next, choose a name for your bot.

4. Copy given token.

Step 2: Connect Bot to Claude Code

1. Open Claude Code with this command:

   claude

2. Install telegram plugin:

   /plugin install telegram@claude-plugins-official

3. Close your Claude and re-open.

4. Use this prompt

Here is my token : [paste]
Read the setup guide here: [ https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-official/blob/main/external_plugins/telegram/README.md]
Then configure the Telegram plugin with my token and show me the confirmation.

Step 3: Finish Setup (Pairing)

Next, paste this.

claude --channels plugin:telegram@claude-plugins-official

And start talking to your bot.

Tip: Your computer must stay on for Claude Code to receive Telegram messages.

Testing

My Claude bot turns to Clawdy_bot

After sending message over the telegram, as you can see it answers.

Claude Code on Telegram

And you can see the same message over the terminal like this.

Same message on Telegram

Final Thoughts

You just put Claude Code in your pocket.

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Thanks for reading.