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A simple command-line interface to send a Telegram message

Usage

text me 'hello world'

docker build . && text me 'build complete'

Text can be used in combination with wait-on to wait for internet to come back:

wait-on https://news.ycombinator.com/ && text me 'internet is back'

Setup

• Create a new telegram bot
• Start a chat with your new bot
• Get the chat id
• Set TEXT_BOT_TOKEN=<your_bot_token> and TEXT_ME=<your_chat_id> in your ~/.bashrc, ~/.bash_profile, ~/.profile, etc
• run make build and make copy to build and move the binary into /usr/local/bin

Note: you can text other users/groups with the chat id specific to that user/group. Simply set the env variable TEXT_USER=<other_chat_id> and run text user hey where user is the username/group name