Telegram Command to GitHub Release

Create a GitHub release from a message sent by an authorized Telegram user.

Setup

Connect a Telegram bot to Receive a Telegram message and publish the workflow to a public HTTPS callback. Set Allowed Chat ID and Allowed User ID in Check the authorized command to the numeric IDs of the permitted chat and sender. Both must match. Do not use a group unless the sender ID belongs to the person authorized to publish.

Connect GitHub in Publish the GitHub release, set the repository owner and name, and grant the account permission to create releases. The operation creates a published release, not a draft. GitHub may create a missing tag at the repository’s default branch.

In n8n, choose Telegram and GitHub OAuth2 credentials, set the same allowed IDs in Check the authorized command, and set the owner and repository in GitHub. Only one webhook can be active per Telegram bot; activate one format for this process.

Behavior

Send a message containing the exact text /deploy. The workflow uses the second field produced by splitting the full message on a single space as the release tag, matching the source. For example, /deploy v1.2.3 uses v1.2.3. Missing or empty tags stop before GitHub; a message from another chat or sender is skipped. Other messages are skipped. The confirmed result contains the GitHub release.

Open Flow validates Telegram’s webhook secret and uses update ID deduplication where available. The native trigger is upgraded to version 1.2 to validate its webhook secret. Neither format promises exactly-once creation. A failed or uncertain create may already have published a release or created a tag; inspect GitHub before replaying. No workflow retry or rollback is added. The n8n OAuth2 helper can refresh credentials and resend once after HTTP 401.

Changes to the source

• Replace repository and account identities with setup, and require both a permitted chat and sender before publishing.
• Validate the tag and the returned published release; retain the source’s contains and space-splitting rules.
• Upgrade the native Telegram trigger to verify its webhook secret.

Adapted from Telegram command to create a GitHub release in Zie619/n8n-workflows. The source export does not identify a separate template author or license.

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