Telegram with curl

For getting messages in private chat with bot

Create a bot using @BotFather, get it's token
Start conversation with bot
Run following curl command

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  export TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID=$(
      curl https://api.telegram.org/bot${TELEGRAM_TOKEN}/getUpdates |
          jq '.result[0].message.chat.id'
         )

Send a simple message

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  curl -X POST \
       -H "Content-Type:multipart/form-data" \
       -F chat_id=$TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID \
       -F text="Hello this is my message" \
       https://api.telegram.org/bot${TELEGRAM_TOKEN}/sendMessage

Send a photo

Get a file, say like this

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  shot-scraper https://willschenk.com -h 600 -o screenshot.png

And once you have a file, send it like this:

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  curl -X POST \
       -H "Content-Type:multipart/form-data" \
       -F chat_id=$TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID \
       -F photo=@"screenshot.png" \
       https://api.telegram.org/bot${TELEGRAM_TOKEN}/sendPhoto

Send a document

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  curl -X POST \
       -H "Content-Type:multipart/form-data" \
       -F chat_id=$TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID \
       -F document=@"open_web_ui.org" \
       https://api.telegram.org/bot${TELEGRAM_TOKEN}/sendDocument

References

https://gist.github.com/SanariSan/4c7cca1aef10dfe0e27e55cfd97e9a53

Telegram with curl

so easy to send messages

Contents

Send a simple message

Send a photo

Send a document

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