What are you trying to achieve?
Message body (in Spanish):
Hello community, I’m developing a private chatbot in Telegram using Make, and I need clear guidance to stay within the free plan limit (1,000 transactions/month).
Project objective:
Create a personal legal assistant that receives commands like:
/criminal document
/search contract
/read image
And triggers a scenario in Make that:
Query data in Google Sheets (I already have the tables ready)
Generate documents in Google Docs using premium templates (with footers, headers, and legal formatting)
Upload or retrieve files from MEGA
Use OCR to extract text from images
And, in some cases, respond with content generated by ChatGPT
Use:
This is a 100% private and personal system. I’m a law student (12th semester) and I want to automate my resources to work faster and in an organized manner.
MAIN QUESTIONS:
What’s best to trigger the initial scenario?
The Telegram Bot module or a custom Webhook to avoid processing each message and save operations?
How do I filter incoming messages in Telegram so they only fire if they begin with certain commands like /type or /search?
Has anyone built a similar system and can share their experience or steps?
I’m particularly interested in how to properly connect structured Google Docs templates so that the documents are professionally formatted.
How can I make ChatGPT provide intelligent, useful, and not just decorative intervention?
I’d like it to write useful legal content based on the type of command it receives.
Is it worth using Make’s new BETA AI as a pre-filter for ChatGPT to save tokens, or is it better to have GPT interpret everything directly?
Any experience, real-life examples, or practical recommendations would be welcome.
Thank you for your time!