How to publish Telegram instant view template for review

Question

I created an Telegram IV template from my website. All checks are green and the template is working fine when published through:

https://t.me/iv?url=example.com

How can I publish my template for approval? so any URL from:

https://example.com

will be considered as Instant View in Telegram?

Answer 1

Publishing templates

If the Instant View page has been processed successfully, you'll see a View in Telegram button in the top right corner – you can use it to view the resulting page in-app.

For your own audience

Note that if you send the resulting t.me/iv?url=...&rhash=... link to other Telegram users, they will see an Instant View page built using your template (the rhash parameter in the link determines which template is used to create the page). This means that, as a website owner, you can create a template for your page and publish t.me/iv?url=... links with the corresponding rhash to your Telegram channel — and your subscribers will be able to view your articles in the Instant View format right away.

For all Telegram users

If you'd like your template to become truly public and seen by all users, regardless of the link they get, the template will need to be approved by the Telegram team.

― https://instantview.telegram.org/#publishing-templates

The problem is that there is not documentation about how "the template will [...] be approved by the Telegram team" when there are no contests.

Answer 2

At the moment (2022) it seems it's not possible to submit an InstantView template for review. The support said to me it's only possible if there is an ongoing context.

This is strange, since in the interface says that it's possible to submit a template without participating to a context:

If you confirm, the web page tries to send the template in a context (see sendToContest):

POST https://instantview.telegram.org/api/my?hash=<omissis>
section=<domain>&method=sendToContest

The request fails without any human error. I think it's a bug in the Instant View submission platform, that does not work without a context.

Here a bug report related to "Cannot submit InstantView":

https://bugs.telegram.org/c/21634

Answer 3

As of 2021, it doesn't seem that Telegram is opening Instant View to more domains. I have tried to publish / submit a template plenty times, with no success.

On My templates page, clicking Submit Template, then Confirm, does nothing at all.

Answer 4

I have the same problem. It looks like currently you need to publish your template through the contest (this page).

1. Mark as 'Tracked' in an editor as minimum 10 of articles/posts on your site. If each one is successful, do the follow.
2. Press button 'Submit template'.

Answer 5

Instant View only support few domain for now, I think they will accept templates after contest.