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Open Settings › Alerts (/settings/alerts). The Channels tab lists Telegram, Browser and Pushover on the left, pick one to set it up. Each channel has a switch, Check and Send test. The Preferences tab sets the language of messages.

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Telegram

Alerts go through one Telegram bot at a time: the shared bot or your own. Alerts via picks Shared bot or My own bot, the single switch turns alerts on or off.

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Shared Spreader bot

The shared bot is @SpreaderApp, the same bot that answers commands.
  1. Click Link Telegram. A link appears with Open in Telegram and Copy link. It works for 10 minutes.
  2. Open it and press Start in Telegram. The page waits (Waiting for Start in Telegram…) and then says Telegram linked.
  3. Click Send test to receive a test message. The button then counts down 30 seconds.
Relink… links another chat, Unlink… stops alerts in this chat. The same link also enables the personal commands of the bot. If you log in with Telegram, the page says whether alerts go to the same account.

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Your own Telegram bot

  1. Create a bot with @BotFather and write anything to it.
  2. Paste the Bot token and your Chat id. Detect chat id finds it after you wrote to the bot. Thread id is only for forum topics.
  3. Click Save, then Check.
The token is encrypted on the server and never shown again. Your bot delivers alerts only to you, with its own Telegram limits. Status values: Working, Not reachable (with the reason, for example the bot is blocked in Telegram), Not checked, Paused.

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Browser

Enable browser alerts shows a pop-up on any page while a Spreader tab is open and you are signed in. Nothing leaves the site, Telegram can stay on at the same time. Sound · this device: Play a sound with each alert, pick the Signal and Volume, Play previews it. Browsers allow sound only after a click on the page, so the first click in a fresh tab unlocks it. Sound settings are kept per device.

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Pushover

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Shared Spreader application

  1. Install the Pushover app on your phone and copy the User key from it or from pushover.net.
  2. Paste it, optionally pick a Device (empty reaches all your devices), click Save and Check. Found devices are listed.
  3. Send test to verify.
The shared application has a monthly cap of messages per user shown on the page as Shared application limit: up to N messages per user per month. Used this month: N. When the pool is used up, the page says Pushover is paused until the 1st.

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Your own Pushover application

Create an application at pushover.net/apps/build, paste its App token and your User key. Your application has its own 10 000 messages per month and no per-user limit. The shared application and your own cannot be on at the same time. Priority and sound are chosen per alert, see Pair and market alerts.

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Preferences

Language of alerts: English, Russian, Ukrainian or Same as the site. Alert messages come in this language, the site language is separate.