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Post and manage stories

Post photo or video stories, choose who can view them, and manage stories for accounts or eligible groups and channels.

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Post photo or video stories from Telegram accounts and check the results in the app. Stories in the chat information panel also let you view content from the person you are chatting with. Not every story you can see is yours to manage.

Who can do this

Owner and Manager can post or manage stories. Owner, Manager, and Support can read stories according to their account permissions.

For groups/channels, the account must also have the appropriate Telegram permissions, and the group/channel must be eligible to post stories.

Before you start

  • The account is signed in, its proxy works, and its machine is online.
  • Photos or videos you have permission to use.
  • A carefully considered audience list.

Telegram may require Premium or other conditions. The app does not skip these requirements.

Where to start

Open Accounts, select an account, then open the Stories tab. You can also view stories from the chat information section in Inbox.

Steps

  1. Select Post story.
  2. Choose a photo or video.
  3. Wait for the app to read and process the file.
  4. Check the preview.
  5. Enter a Caption if needed.
  6. Select Who can view.

For personal stories, options include Everyone, Contacts, and Close friends. Close friends uses the Telegram account's close friends group. This form is not a tool for creating a new recipient list.

Group/channel stories use the public audience of the destination, not the privacy selector used for personal stories.

MOV and WebM are converted to MP4 on the machine running your browser. Wait for conversion to finish, then check the picture and sound again. If the browser cannot convert the audio, the app warns that the story will have no sound. Do not ignore this warning.

  1. Select Keep on profile if you want the story to remain on the profile after its normal display period.
  2. Click Post story.
  3. Wait for the posting result. Do not close the dialog just because the file has uploaded.
  4. Open the story in the list to review it.

Delete a story

  1. Open the story to delete.
  2. Select the delete action in the viewer.
  3. Confirm when prompted by the app.

Result

The story is posted on Telegram when the job completes. Selecting a file or seeing a pending status is not proof of successful posting.

Check

Check the account, audience, caption, picture, and sound. For groups/channels, check the destination before confirming.

If something goes wrong

  • Missing Premium or boost requirements: meet the conditions specified by Telegram.
  • No permission to post: check administrator permissions.
  • Video conversion fails: try a suitable MP4 file.
  • Story is pending: check the reason in Logs.
  • Story is gone: it may have expired or been deleted.

Do it with the API or MCP

Use stories.list, stories.post, and stories.manage.

Tool names: stories_list, stories_post, stories_manage. Use stories.channel_status, tool stories_channel_status, to check whether a group/channel can post stories.