Automated messages to the Telegram bot using curl or script

Initial Steps

Open Telegram App

Go to botfather and create a new bot

Create a chat group and add the bot to it

Post creating bot you would have got the botid:auth-token

Open URL

$ TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN=your-bot-id:your-auth-token $ curl https://api.telegram.org/bot$TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN/getUpdates | jq .message.chat.id

Sending message using curl

$ curl -X POST -H ‘Content-Type: application/json’ -d ‘{“chat_id”: “", "text": "Hello! World"}' https://api.telegram.org/bot$TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN/sendMessage

SEND MESSAGE FROM SHELL

import requests 
# telegram url 
telegramURL = 'https://api.telegram.org/bot$TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN/'
def send_message(msgText): 
    params = {'chat_id':<CHATID-FROM-PREVIOUS-STEP>, 'text': msgText} 
    response = requests.post(telegramURL + 'sendMessage', data=params) 
    return response 
send_message("Hello! World")