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Simple Crypto Price Alerts

Good for a crypto channel, a trading community, or your own use when all you need is price alerts. It's four short flows you can read in a few minutes, so it's easy to change. If you also want charts, token safety scans, a daily digest, and paid Premium, start from the Advanced Crypto Terminal template instead.

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Main menuAdd alertMy alertsAlert checkPrices updater · every minute

Overview

A small Telegram bot that does one job: people pick a coin and a target — a price, or a percent rise or fall — and the bot messages them once when it happens. Prices come from CoinGecko every minute. No API keys, no payments, no extras.

Setup Requirements

  • Connect your Telegram bot: Settings → Bots → paste the token from @BotFather.
  • Press Deploy. The bot only answers once the flows are published.
  • Wait about a minute so the Prices updater loads the first prices, then send /start and add a test alert.
  • Optional: change trackedCoins (CoinGecko ids, comma-separated) and maxAlerts under Variables.

Node Breakdown

  • People send /start and tap New alert
  • They pick a coin — Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, or type another tracked coin — and see its current price
  • They choose what to watch — rises by %, falls by %, or reaches a price — and send the number
  • The bot checks prices every minute and messages them once when the alert hits, then removes that alert
  • My alerts lists what they are watching and lets them remove one coin or everything

Details

Good to know

  • Prices come from CoinGecko's free public API, loaded once a minute for the whole bot — no API key, and no request per user.
  • People can only set alerts on coins in the trackedCoins list. It ships with Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and TON; add any CoinGecko coin id.
  • Each person can keep a limited number of alerts at once (5 by default, set in maxAlerts), so one user cannot pile up hundreds.
  • An alert fires once and is removed, so nobody gets the same message every minute.
  • Alerts are checked about once a minute, so a spike that reverses within that minute can be missed. It's a heads-up tool, not a trading signal.

Common questions

  • Which coins should people be able to watch?
  • How many alerts can one person keep at once?
  • Do you need more than alerts — charts, scans, a digest, or paid tiers? Then the Advanced Crypto Terminal fits better.

Keep in mind

  • Don't promise instant alerts — prices refresh once a minute.
  • Don't present alerts as financial advice or trading signals.
  • Don't put hundreds of coins in trackedCoins — one CoinGecko call covers the whole list, and the free API has rate limits.