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I was pretty surprised to find this had nothing to do with Instagram.

Hmm... I get that :) Do you have a better name for it ?

Telegram + Widget = Telegidget

Short. Sounds like a real word, and from a quick googling doesn't seem to be being used by anything else (open source or commercial).

Telegadget? meh... malaysian phone company or something.

I just don't like the 'i'.

Not bad, maybe I'll open an issue on GitHub and let people vote on the name.

Some sort of pun involving telegraph and web is lurking out there.

Waph

Rhymes with waff. Fits one of Telegram's bigger demographics, too. (waff is a furry synonym for wolf)

Telechat?

Webgram

Gramlet

Widgram

Teleget

???

I thought it had something to do with Instagram DM linked to Telegram…

Other than that I really liked the idea and implementation, great work! It's something I'd use in the future.

Perhaps ironically, this would be against their API terms.

> You cannot use "insta", "gram" or "Instagram" in your company or product name.

Source: https://www.instagram.com/developer/

Thanks! I've just implemented on this fairly new website https://www.brainzilla.com/

I had a few ideas for widgets that sit there and are only loaded when the user interacts with it and your implementation will be perfect for me to understand how it's done. Thanks again!

I've implemented a pretty naive solution, I guess there are better ways to do that.

You can it here https://github.com/idoco/intergram/blob/master/src/widget/wi...

Does the Telegram API offer any way for direct ephemeral communication between users and Telegram's servers so as to not require an intermediary server?

Yeah.

https://core.telegram.org/

I think this will require the user to login and have a Telegram account (which I didn't wanted to rely on), but I might be wrong.

My question asks if it is possible to use Telegram's API to communicate with someone in a way that does not require the user to create or authenticate with an account. But it may require a loosely permissive authorization token provided by the person with whom the user wishes to communicate.

Intergram achieves this (if I understand correctly) by using an intermediary server between the user and Telegram's API.

What I'm further asking is if the same behavior is possible without the intermediary server.

Interesting. I wonder how this could be used to have multiple people read and reply to messages? Perhaps the Intergram bot could be linked to a group chat...

Yeah, it should work in groups. I really like the idea of building another bot to do some auto replies, kinda like a "micro-bot" architecture.

I see you're using React on this - cool. If my site already uses React, will your widget import React again?

I'm using preact, it's a very light version of react. The whole initial js bundle is less than 6kb (gziped)

https://preactjs.com

It may make sense to publish a self-contained component in an npm package

This is amazing!!! Thanks :-)

Thanks :)

Came here for Instagram.

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