Tell Telegram
A simple command line utility to send messages via a telegram bot.
Usage
$ telltg
usage:
telltg "Hello world"
longrunning_program && telltg -o "My batch job" "Done"
echo "Hello world" | telltg
Configuration. choose one of the following options:
- Config file:
- create a telltg.conf.json file in
- ~/.telltg.conf.json
- /etc/telltg.conf.json
- copy and customize this config:
{"key":"bot123:abc","ids":["1234", "456"]}
- ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLE
- set the following environmental variables
- TELLTG_BOT_KEY
- TELLTG_CHAT_IDS (as comma separated values)
A CLI Telegram message sender
positional arguments:
message The message you want to send
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--object OBJECT, -o OBJECT
Message object
--hostname, -n Include hostname
--id [ID [ID ...]], -i [ID [ID ...]]
Send to specific chat_id
Configuration
Bot setup
First a bot and a chat_id are needed:
- create a bot via the BotFather
- take note of the bot's
tokenprovided by the botfather - add the bot to your contacts and sent it a message
- Use the
getUpdatesAPI method to retrive yourchat_id- To do that, navigate to
https://api.telegram.org/bot{token}/getUpdatesand look for anidelement inside achatelement
- To do that, navigate to
Installation
Run the following command: $ pip install telltg
Config file
Write the config file with the syntax sppecified below in one of the following locations:
~/.telltg.conf.json/etc/telltg.conf.json
{
"key":"bot123:abc",
"ids":[
"myid1"
]
}
