Bitcoin big-move alerts in Telegram from CoinPaprika

What it is

This n8n workflow sends you a Telegram message when the price of Bitcoin swings a lot in a day. Every 15 minutes it asks CoinPaprika for Bitcoin’s price. If the change over 24 hours is 5% or more up or down, it sends the price, the 24 hour change and the 7 day change to a chat. Five nodes do the work, one of them a sticky note.

Who it suits

Anyone who wants a quiet alert for big swings and no live chart. It needs no key for the price, so setup takes a few minutes. Skip it if you want one alert per move, since it repeats every 15 minutes while the change stays past 5%.

You need a little n8n: import a file, add a Telegram credential and paste a chat id.

Where to use it

Any n8n that can reach CoinPaprika and Telegram will run it. It needs no public address, so it also runs on a home server.

• n8n Cloud: import the file and publish it
• Your own n8n server: the same steps, with no public address needed
• Another coin: change btc-bitcoin in Get BTC price (CoinPaprika) to another CoinPaprika id
• Another chat app: replace Send Telegram alert with that app’s node

Setup

Download saves a zip with workflow.json and Mindket’s setup notes in your downloads folder. Setup is one Telegram credential and one chat id.

1. In n8n, create a workflow, open its menu, choose Import from File and pick workflow.json.
2. Add a Telegram credential with your bot’s token and select it in Send Telegram alert.
3. Message your bot once in Telegram. A bot can write only to a person who has messaged it first.
4. In Send Telegram alert, replace <YOUR_TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID> with your chat id. For a private chat that is your Telegram user id. To find it, add a Telegram Trigger node, press Listen for test event, message your bot and read message.chat.id in the output. Then delete that node.
5. Press Execute workflow to run it once. If Bitcoin has moved less than 5% in 24 hours, Big 24h move? stops the run and no message is sent. To see a message while testing, set both limits in that node to 0, then set them back to 5 and -5.
6. Publish the workflow. It checks every 15 minutes from then on.

How to use it

Publish the workflow and leave it. Every 15 minutes it checks, and a message arrives only when Bitcoin’s 24 hour change is 5% or more up or down. The message gives the price in US dollars, the 24 hour change and the 7 day change.

Example

At a 15 minute check, Bitcoin is down 6% over the past 24 hours.

A Telegram message arrives with the price in US dollars and the 24 hour and 7 day changes. The next one comes 15 minutes later if the move still holds.

For newcomers and experts

If you are new. n8n draws a workflow as boxes joined by lines, and each box, a node, does one job. A schedule trigger starts the workflow by the clock. An API is a web address that a program can ask for data. CoinPaprika answers with the price and how it has changed, and the IF step decides whether the change is big enough to message you about.

For experts. The IF node joins two conditions with or. One is a change of 5 or more, and the other is a change of -5 or less. Its false output goes nowhere, so a quiet run ends there. The message reads the price and both changes from the same response, so one request feeds the whole run. All three numbers sit in quotes.USD of that response.

Good to know

The alert repeats every 15 minutes while the move holds, and CoinPaprika’s free plan is for personal use only.

• Repeats: the workflow keeps no record, so while the 24 hour change stays past 5% you get a message every 15 minutes, up to 96 a day. Raise the interval or the limits to quiet it
• CoinPaprika: its pricing page, read on 12 November 2026, lists a free plan of 20,000 calls a month with no key and no card, counted per IP address and for personal use only. Commercial use starts with its Starter plan at $99 a month. This workflow makes about 2,900 calls in a 30 day month. Its API reference lists a 429 reply for a call over the limit, and a failed request ends the run before the Telegram step
• Endpoint: the API reference, read that day, lists GET /v1/tickers/{coin_id} and shows the fields this workflow reads, quotes.USD.price, percent_change_24h and percent_change_7d
• Telegram: the node adds the line “This message was sent automatically with n8n” unless you turn off Append n8n Attribution in its Additional Fields
• Your data: CoinPaprika sees your IP address and the coin you ask for. The alert goes to Telegram
• Not run: nothing here was run against CoinPaprika or Telegram. The notes come from n8n’s source and the vendors’ pages
• Credentials: the JSON holds none