Publish From Telegram: Forward a File, Get a Link Back

Sharing a document inside a chat has an awkward shape. You have a .md file from an AI assistant or a colleague, and the person you want to show it to cannot read it as a file — they need a page. So the file goes to a laptop, gets uploaded somewhere, and a link comes back the long way round.

@dochost_bot removes that detour. Forward the file to the bot, or paste the text straight into the chat, and it replies with a public link.

What it does

• Forward a file. Send a .md or .html file to the bot and it publishes it, then replies with the URL.
• Or just paste. Paste Markdown or HTML as a message and it does the same thing.
• No account required. Anonymous links work exactly like anonymous links on the site: free, and they expire after 7 days.
• Connect an account when you want one. /link attaches the chat to a dochost account, so pages published from Telegram land in the same dashboard as everything else and follow your plan's limits.

Commands: /start, /link, /account, /unlink, /about.

Why forwarding rather than copy-paste

On a phone, "copy this Markdown out of one app, open a browser, paste it into a form, publish, copy the link, go back" is five app switches. Forwarding is three taps and never leaves Telegram. That difference is the whole reason the bot exists — the underlying publish is the same one the website uses.

It also handles the case where the document is genuinely a file rather than text you can select. A .md attachment in a group chat cannot be copy-pasted on mobile in any pleasant way; it can be forwarded.

What stays the same

Pages published from Telegram are ordinary dochost pages. They are served from the cookieless content host with scripts disabled, exactly like pages published from the web, the browser extension or the MCP server. Nothing an author sends can execute in a reader's session.

The 7-day expiry on anonymous links also applies. If a page is meant to stick around, sign in and it becomes permanent — see pricing.

Try it

Open @dochost_bot, send /start, then forward it a Markdown file. If you want the pages tied to your account afterwards, send /link and follow the one-time flow.