telegram-send/README.md

Overview

Super simple curl wrapper to send Telegram messages.

Requirements

• jq
• curl

Usage

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

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

Telegram output