Video to Telegram

Feed your Telegram channel without editing every clip by hand

Paste a long video, get short captioned clips, and post them to your channel from SnapDub. Connecting takes one step: add our bot to your channel as an admin.

Clip your first video How it works

500 free credits every month, no card.

Why Telegram is different

Nobody is going to stumble across your channel

On TikTok or Reels a clip can find an audience that never asked for it. Telegram has no recommendation feed doing that work. Your channel reaches the people who subscribed, and that is the whole reach - which changes what a good clip is for.

It stops being bait for the algorithm and starts being a reason to stay subscribed. The failure mode is not "this did not go viral", it is a channel that goes quiet for three weeks and gets muted. So the job is cadence: something worth opening, often enough to be a habit.

That is a production problem, not a creative one - and it is the same production problem whether you are posting to one channel or five.

How it works

From a long video to a post in your channel

  1. Bring the source

    A YouTube, Twitch or Zoom link, or a file you upload.

  2. Generate

    Vertical, captioned clips with your template already applied.

  3. Add the bot to your channel

    Make it an admin with permission to post.

  4. Publish

    The clip is uploaded to Telegram as a video, with its description as the caption.

Connecting

No password, no OAuth screen, no token to renew

Every other platform here needs you to sign in through an OAuth consent screen and hands us a token that eventually expires. Telegram works the other way round: one bot belongs to SnapDub, and you grant it access by adding it to a channel you already administer.

There is no credential of yours involved, so there is nothing to leak and nothing to reconnect six weeks later. Remove the bot from the channel and the access is gone, decided in Telegram rather than in our settings page.

What the bot can and cannot do

It posts to the channels you added it to. It cannot read your messages, see your contacts, or touch anything you did not hand it. Groups and private chats are not what it is for - the target is a channel you publish to.

Cadence

The queue is the point.

A channel dies of silence, not of bad clips. Generate a batch from one long video, drop it into your content plan, and the next two weeks are already written - so a busy fortnight costs you nothing in your channel.

Podcast 60s Template
Crop
Auto reframe
Captions
Bold white
Font
Your uploaded font
Logo
Brand kit on
Assets
2 pinned
Your title, your font every single clip
Your title, your font every single clip
Your title, your font every single clip

One setup, every clip

Pick the template on the configure step and the whole batch inherits it - not one clip, all of them.

Your fonts and assets, baked in

Upload a font and pin your overlays once. They land in the same spot on every render, automatically.

It keeps running without you

Point it at your YouTube or Twitch channel and new uploads get clipped to that same template on their own.

Practicalities

The limits worth knowing before you start

The same clip, elsewhere

Your channel is rarely the only place it goes

A clip made for Telegram is the same 9:16 captioned clip that works on TikTok, Reels and Shorts, so it is worth connecting those too and letting one generation cover all of them.

Where Telegram earns its place is as the version of your audience that is actually yours. A recommendation feed can stop showing you to people tomorrow. A subscriber list cannot.

FAQ

Questions, answered

How do I connect a Telegram channel to SnapDub?

Add the SnapDub bot to your channel as an admin with permission to post, then pick that channel in your settings. There is no OAuth screen and no password involved.

Can it post to a Telegram group instead of a channel?

Channels are what this is built for - a channel is a broadcast to subscribers, which is what clips are for. Groups are conversations, and a bot dropping videos into one is usually unwelcome.

What is the file size limit?

50MB per video, which is Telegram's own ceiling for a bot upload. Short vertical clips are well inside it.

Do I need a Telegram Premium account?

No. The bot posts through Telegram's Bot API, which does not depend on your own account tier.

Can I post the same clip to Telegram and TikTok?

Yes. One generation produces one clip, and you publish it to whichever connected accounts you want.

Does removing the bot delete the posts?

No. Removing it only revokes future posting. Anything already in the channel stays there, and is yours to delete in Telegram.

Get started

Give your channel something to post tomorrow

500 free credits every month, no card. One long video is usually a fortnight of posts.

Clip your first video

Also worth reading: planning the posts instead of improvising them, the same clips on LinkedIn, or turning a YouTube video into TikToks.