# Overview

Super simple curl wrapper to send Telegram messages.

# Requirements

 - [jq](https://jqlang.github.io/jq/)
 - curl

# Usage

```text
usage:  ./telegram-send.sh [OPTIONS] "text to send"

Instructs telegram bot to send the supplied message to a chat.

OPTIONS
         -b  filename       Override default bot token file (/Users/rob/.telegram/bottoken)
         -c  filename       Override default chat id token file (/Users/rob/.telegram/chatid)

Needs these files to work:
   File with telegram bot token: /Users/rob/.telegram/bottoken
   File with telegram chat id:   /Users/rob/.telegram/chatid
```

# Example

## CLI command

```text
rob@crom:telegram-send$ ./telegram-send.sh  "this is a test"
rob@crom:telegram-send$
```

## Telegram output

![telegramoutput](img/this_is_a_test.png "telegram output")