TELEGRAM BOT

Small command line utility for sending messages via a telegram bot. This can be used to send notifications, pictures and files to a telegram chat.

For example, you can use it to set a long process running on a computer and let it inform you when it is finished

Building Rust version

1. Download and install Rust
2. Build with:

cargo run --release

The compiled binary is in target/release/telegram.

Using

1. Create a new bot using Botfather and get its token
2. Initialise the TELEGRAM_TOKEN and TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID environmental variables using the bots token and the chat id of the chat you want to send messages to.

export TELEGRAM_TOKEN=<token>
export TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID=<chat_id>

3. Use the built binary to send messages via:

telegram -t Hey!

The utility can also send files and photos. Check telegram -h for details.

You can also copy the compiled binary to /usr/bin and add the environmental variables to .bashrc to have it accessible as the terminal command.