These bots bring repository and CI events into Telegram: a new issue, a merge request waiting for review, a failed pipeline. For a small team a channel with these notifications replaces a dashboard nobody opens.
Two bots share the top of this rating: GitHub (@GitHubBot), which subscribes to public repositories and posts issues, pull requests and pushes into a chat with replies from Telegram, and Notifine for GitLab (@gitlab_notifine_bot), an open-source Rust bridge for pushes, merge requests and pipelines. Both are free; Github Release Bot (@github_release_bot) is the lightweight choice if you only want to know when a dependency publishes a new version.
A long-running bot that subscribes to public GitHub repositories and posts new issues, pull requests, pushes and other events into a chat or channel, with the option to reply to issues from Telegram. Free, English interface, no repository access token required for public repos.
The GitLab half of Notifine, an open-source notification bridge (also covering GitHub and Trello) that posts pushes, merge requests and pipeline events into Telegram. Free, source on GitHub, built in Rust for reliability.
Forwards notifications from GitLab (both gitlab.com and self-hosted instances) into Telegram and lets you respond quickly, complementing GitLab's official Slack-style integrations. Free, English interface.
Notifies a chat whenever a public GitHub repository publishes a new release, useful for tracking dependencies or tools you rely on without watching every repo on GitHub itself. Free, English interface.
The GitHub half of the same open-source Notifine project as gitlab_notifine_bot: pushes GitHub repository events into Telegram via a webhook. Free, source on GitHub.
Reports CircleCI build statuses into Telegram, so a pipeline pass or failure shows up in chat instead of only in the CircleCI dashboard or email. Free, English interface.
Delivers Jenkins build notifications to Telegram, letting a team see job successes and failures without polling the Jenkins dashboard. Free, English interface.
Tracks activity on a repository you point it at and reports changes into Telegram, similar in spirit to GitHub's own Watch feature but delivered as chat messages. Free, English interface.
| # | Bot | Price | Languages | Inline | Groups | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GitHub @GitHubBot | Free | EN | no | yes | 70 |
| 2 | Notifine for GitLab @gitlab_notifine_bot | Free | EN | no | yes | 70 |
| 3 | Gitlab @gitlab_bot | Free | EN | no | yes | 63 |
| 4 | Github Release Bot @github_release_bot | Free | EN | no | yes | 63 |
| 5 | Notifine for GitHub @github_notifine_bot | Free | EN | no | yes | 62 |
| 6 | CircleCI @circleci_bot | Free | EN | no | yes | 62 |
| 7 | JenkinsBot @jenkins_bot | Free | EN | no | yes | 61 |
| 8 | Repo Watch Bot @repo_watch_bot | Free | EN | no | yes | 55 |
We connected each bot to a test repository, then opened an issue, pushed a commit, created a pull request and ran a pipeline that failed on purpose. We measured the delay before each event appeared in Telegram, checked what the message contained, author, branch, link, diff summary, whether events can be filtered per repository and whether the bot needs a token with more access than it uses.
For public GitHub repositories the GitHub bot needs no token: subscribe by name and events start flowing. Private repositories and GitLab need a webhook: you add the bot's URL in repository settings and choose the events to send. Notifine works this way for GitHub, GitLab and Trello and publishes its source, so you can verify what it does with the payload or host it yourself.
A channel that reports every push becomes noise within a day. Start with pull or merge requests, review requests and pipeline failures; add pushes only for the main branch. Release notifications are a separate need: Github Release Bot watches public repositories for new tags, which is the easiest way to track dependencies without GitHub's own watch emails.
Pipeline results from GitLab CI come through the GitLab bots; CircleCI has its own bot for build status. For a full picture combine them with a website monitoring bot such as UptimeRobot, so a deploy that breaks production shows up in the same channel as the pipeline that shipped it.
Yes, via a webhook you add in repository settings; the GitHub bot's token-free mode covers public repositories only.
In GitLab, choose the pipeline event in the webhook and filter by status in the bot's settings; CircleCI's bot reports each build status.
Github Release Bot notifies a chat whenever a public repository publishes a release or tag.
All bots in the rating are free; Notifine is open source and can be self-hosted.