# Telegram Bot to ask for a date
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/telegram-bot-to-ask-for-a-date/79291
**Category:** Dashboard
**Tags:** telegram
**Created:** [19 June 2023 01:23 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/telegram-bot-to-ask-for-a-date/79291 "2023-06-19T01:23:58Z")
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### Author:  [@smanjunath211](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/smanjunath211)
#### Post date: [19 June 2023 01:23 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/telegram-bot-to-ask-for-a-date/79291/1 "2023-06-19T01:23:58Z")
I want my telegram bot to ask a 'date' . I have searched the internet and got to this page, but i have no idea how to use this in node-red. please direct me to take first few steps.
i tried copying the code given in the page into the inbuild examples but no success.
> **[telegram-inline-calendar - npm Package Overview - Socket](https://socket.dev/npm/package/telegram-inline-calendar)**
>
> Date and time picker and inline calendar for Node.js telegram bots. Version: 1.6.2 was published by vds13. Start using Socket to analyze telegram-inline-calendar and its 1 dependencies to secure your app from supply chain attacks.
my requirement : the telegram bot should ask me a date in a prescribed format, which i can pass on to the flow to get some results.
i am able to successfully execute the in built examples in the telegrambot. so my bot is up and running.
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### Author:  [@smanjunath211](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/smanjunath211)
#### Post date: [19 June 2023 11:53 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/telegram-bot-to-ask-for-a-date/79291/2 "2023-06-19T11:53:18Z")
something like this.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [19 July 2023 11:53 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/telegram-bot-to-ask-for-a-date/79291/3 "2023-07-19T11:53:40Z")
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