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Telegram HTTP bot API via CURL | Send text, photos, documents, etc.
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Here are some examples on how to use Telegram bot api via curl

Environment variables used, feel free to replace with bare text

  • Create a bot using @BotFather, get it's token
  • Start conversation with bot
  • Go to @getmyid_bot and obtain your account id

Now you can send messages to yourself in a chat with bot:

Send document from disk

curl -X POST -H "Content-Type:multipart/form-data" -F document=@"path/to/some.file" "https://api.telegram.org/bot$TOKEN/sendDocument?chat_id=$CHAT_ID"

Create qr code from string, pipe stdout to curl, send it as an image

qrencode -s 6 -o - "Some text to encode" | curl -X POST -H "Content-Type:multipart/form-data" -F photo=@- "https://api.telegram.org/bot$TOKEN/sendPhoto?chat_id=$CHAT_ID"

More message types could be found here

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