Intergram

Judgement

What it is

Integration

What it does

A live chat widget for websites that forwards visitor messages to your Telegram, where you reply.

Adopt it when

You run a small site and want free live chat answered from Telegram.

Watch out

No pushes since March 2024 and no releases, and conversations pass through your bot and server.

Ready for

Experimental

Runs as

Self-hosted server

Built with

JavaScript, Express and Socket.IO

How established

Established: started 10 years ago, no tagged release yet.

What the license allows

You can use it inside a product you sell; changes you make to its own files must be shared.

Judged on 2026-11-03 from the project's README and GitHub data. The license and age lines are worked out directly.

Built from

Follow it down: Intergram → V8 → LLVM project → runs on a microchip

How compilers were built, back to punched paper tape

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