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%global _empty_manifest_terminate_build 0
Name: python-telegram-send
Version: 0.34
Release: 1
Summary: Send messages and files over Telegram from the command-line.
License: GPLv3+
URL: https://github.com/rahiel/telegram-send
Source0: https://mirrors.nju.edu.cn/pypi/web/packages/92/8c/0ef8546d52cfc5bfb942033cb8e1064cf14e6b1c754196229cda5ecaf8a4/telegram-send-0.34.tar.gz
BuildArch: noarch
Requires: python3-telegram-bot
Requires: python3-colorama
Requires: python3-appdirs
%description
# telegram-send
[](https://pypi.org/project/telegram-send/)
[](https://pypi.org/project/telegram-send/)
[](https://pypistats.org/packages/telegram-send)
[](https://github.com/rahiel/telegram-send/blob/master/LICENSE.txt)
Telegram-send is a command-line tool to send messages and files over Telegram to
your account, to a group or to a channel. It provides a simple interface that
can be easily called from other programs.
<!-- markdown-toc start - Don't edit this section. Run M-x markdown-toc-refresh-toc -->
**Table of Contents**
- [Usage](#usage)
- [Installation](#installation)
- [Examples](#examples)
- [Alert on completion of shell commands](#alert-on-completion-of-shell-commands)
- [Periodic messages with cron](#periodic-messages-with-cron)
- [Supervisor process state notifications](#supervisor-process-state-notifications)
- [Usage from Python](#usage-from-python)
- [Cron job output](#cron-job-output)
- [ASCII pictures](#ascii-pictures)
- [Questions & Answers](#questions--answers)
- [How to use a proxy?](#how-to-use-a-proxy)
- [How to send the same message to multiple users?](#how-to-send-the-same-message-to-multiple-users)
- [Uninstallation](#uninstallation)
<!-- markdown-toc end -->
# Usage
To send a message:
``` shell
telegram-send "Hello, World!"
```
There is a maximum message length of 4096 characters, larger messages will be
automatically split up into smaller ones and sent separately.
To send a message using Markdown or HTML formatting:
```shell
telegram-send --format markdown "Only the *bold* use _italics_"
telegram-send --format html "<pre>fixed-width messages</pre> are <i>also</i> supported"
telegram-send --format markdown "||Do good and find good!||"
```
Note that not all Markdown syntax or all HTML tags are supported. For more
information on supported formatting, see the [formatting options][]. We use the
MarkdownV2 style for Markdown.
[formatting options]: https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#formatting-options
The `--pre` flag formats messages as fixed-width text:
``` shell
telegram-send --pre "monospace"
```
To send a message without link previews:
``` shell
telegram-send --disable-web-page-preview "https://github.com/rahiel/telegram-send"
```
To send a message from stdin:
``` shell
printf 'With\nmultiple\nlines' | telegram-send --stdin
```
With this option you can send the output of any program.
To send a file (maximum file size of 50 MB) with an optional caption:
``` shell
telegram-send --file quran.pdf --caption "The Noble Qur'an"
```
To send an image (maximum file size of 10 MB) with an optional caption:
``` shell
telegram-send --image moon.jpg --caption "The Moon at Night"
```
To send a sticker:
``` shell
telegram-send --sticker sticker.webp
```
To send a GIF or a soundless MP4 video (encoded as H.264/MPEG-4 AVC with a maximum file size of 50 MB) with an optional caption:
``` shell
telegram-send --animation kitty.gif --caption "🐱"
```
To send an MP4 video (maximum file size of 50 MB) with an optional caption:
``` shell
telegram-send --video birds.mp4 --caption "Singing Birds"
```
To send an audio file with an optional caption:
``` shell
telegram-send --audio "Pachelbel's Canon.mp3" --caption "Johann Pachelbel - Canon in D"
```
To send a location via latitude and longitude:
``` shell
telegram-send --location 35.5398033 -79.7488965
```
All captions can be optionally formatted with Markdown or html:
``` shell
telegram-send --image moon.jpg --caption "The __Moon__ at *Night*" --format markdown
```
Telegram-send integrates into your file manager (Thunar, Nautilus and Nemo):

# Installation
Install telegram-send system-wide with pip:
``` shell
sudo pip3 install telegram-send
```
Or if you want to install it for a single user without root permissions:
``` shell
pip3 install telegram-send
```
If installed for a single user you need to add `~/.local/bin` to their path,
refer to this [guide][] for instructions.
And finally configure it with `telegram-send --configure` if you want to send to
your account, `telegram-send --configure-group` to send to a group or with
`telegram-send --configure-channel` to send to a channel.
Use the `--config` option to use multiple configurations. For example to set up
sending to a channel in a non-default configuration: `telegram-send --config
channel.conf --configure-channel`. Then always specify the config file to use
it: `telegram-send --config channel.conf "Bismillah"`.
The `-g` option uses the global configuration at `/etc/telegram-send.conf`.
Configure it once: `sudo telegram-send -g --configure` and all users on the
system can send messages with this config: `telegram-send -g "GNU"` (provided
you've installed it system-wide.)
[guide]: https://www.rahielkasim.com/installing-programs-from-non-system-package-managers-without-sudo/
# Examples
Here are some examples to get a taste of what is possible with telegram-send.
## Alert on completion of shell commands
Receive an alert when long-running commands finish with the `tg` alias, based on
Ubuntu's built-in `alert`. Put the following in your `~/.bashrc`:
``` shell
alias tg='telegram-send "$([ $? = 0 ] && echo "" || echo "error: ") $(history|tail -n1|sed -e '\''s/^\s*[0-9]\+\s*//;s/[;&|]\s*tg$//'\'')"'
```
And then use it like `sleep 10; tg`. This will send you a message with the
completed command, in this case `sleep 10`.
What if you started a program and forgot to set the alert? Suspend the program
with Ctrl+Z and then enter `fg; telegram-send "your message here"`.
To automatically receive notifications for long running commands, use [ntfy][]
with the Telegram backend.
[ntfy]: https://github.com/dschep/ntfy
## Periodic messages with cron
We can combine telegram-send with [cron][] to periodically send messages. Here
we will set up a cron job to send the [Astronomy Picture of the Day][apod] to
the [astropod][] channel.
Create a bot by talking to the [BotFather][], create a public channel and add
your bot as administrator to the channel. You will need to explicitly search for
your bot's username when adding it. Then run `telegram-send --configure-channel
--config astropod.conf`. We will use the [apod.py][] script that gets the daily
picture and calls telegram-send to post it to the channel.
We create a cron job `/etc/cron.d/astropod` (as root) with the content:
``` shell
SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
# m h dom mon dow user command
0 1 * * * telegram ~/apod.py --config ~/astropod.conf
```
Make sure the file ends with a newline. Cron will then execute the script every
day at 1:00 as the user `telegram`. Join the [astropod][] channel to see the
result.
[cron]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron
[apod]: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
[astropod]: https://telegram.me/astropod
[botfather]: https://telegram.me/botfather
[apod.py]: https://github.com/rahiel/telegram-send/blob/master/examples/apod.py
## Supervisor process state notifications
[Supervisor][] controls and monitors processes. It can start processes at boot,
restart them if they fail and also report on their status. [Supervisor-alert][]
is a simple plugin for Supervisor that sends messages on process state updates
to an arbitrary program. Using it with telegram-send (by using the `--telegram`
option), you can receive notifications whenever one of your processes exits.
[supervisor]: http://supervisord.org
[supervisor-alert]: https://github.com/rahiel/supervisor-alert
## Usage from Python
Because telegram-send is written in Python, you can use its functionality
directly from other Python programs: `import telegram_send`. Look at the
[documentation][].
[documentation]: https://www.rahielkasim.com/telegram-send/docs/api/
## Cron job output
Cron has a built-in feature to send the output of jobs via mail. In this example
we'll send cron output over Telegram. Here is the example cron job:
``` shell
SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
# m h dom mon dow user command
0 * * * * rahiel chronic ~/script.bash 2>&1 | telegram-send -g --stdin
```
The command is `chronic ~/script.bash 2>&1 | telegram-send -g --stdin`. We run
the cron job with `chronic`, a tool from [moreutils][]. Chronic makes sure that
a command produces no output unless it fails. No news is good news! If our
script fails, chronic passes the output through the pipe (`|`) to telegram-send.
We also send the output of stderr by redirecting stderr to stdout (`2>&1`).
Here we've installed telegram-send system-wide with `sudo` and use the global
configuration (`-g`) so `telegram-send` is usable in the cron job. Place the
cron job in `/etc/cron.d/` and make sure the file ends with a newline. The
filename can't contain a `.` either.
[moreutils]: https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/
## ASCII pictures
Combining `--stdin` and `--pre`, we can send ASCII pictures:
``` shell
ncal -bh | telegram-send --pre --stdin
apt-get moo | telegram-send --pre --stdin
```
# Questions & Answers
## How to use a proxy?
You can set a proxy with an environment variable:
``` shell
https_proxy=https://ip:port telegram-send "hello"
```
Within Python you can set the environment variable with:
``` python
os.environ["https_proxy"] = "https://ip:port"
```
If you have a SOCKS proxy, you need to install support for it:
``` python
pip3 install pysocks
```
If you installed `telegram-send` with `sudo`, you also need to install `pysocks`
with `sudo`.
## How to send the same message to multiple users?
First you configure telegram-send for every recipient you want to send messages to:
``` shell
telegram-send --config user1.conf --configure
telegram-send --config group1.conf --configure-group
telegram-send --config group2.conf --configure-group
telegram-send --config channel1.conf --configure-channel
```
You will need all of the above config files. Now to send a message to all of the
above configured recipients:
``` shell
telegram-send --config user1.conf \
--config group1.conf \
--config group2.conf \
--config channel1.conf \
"Multicasting!"
```
## How to get sticker files?
In Telegram Desktop you right click a sticker and choose "Save Image As...". You
can then send the saved `webp` file with `telegram-send --sticker sticker.webp`.
# Uninstallation
``` shell
sudo telegram-send --clean
sudo pip3 uninstall telegram-send
```
Or if you installed it for a single user:
``` shell
telegram-send --clean
pip3 uninstall telegram-send
```
%package -n python3-telegram-send
Summary: Send messages and files over Telegram from the command-line.
Provides: python-telegram-send
BuildRequires: python3-devel
BuildRequires: python3-setuptools
BuildRequires: python3-pip
%description -n python3-telegram-send
# telegram-send
[](https://pypi.org/project/telegram-send/)
[](https://pypi.org/project/telegram-send/)
[](https://pypistats.org/packages/telegram-send)
[](https://github.com/rahiel/telegram-send/blob/master/LICENSE.txt)
Telegram-send is a command-line tool to send messages and files over Telegram to
your account, to a group or to a channel. It provides a simple interface that
can be easily called from other programs.
<!-- markdown-toc start - Don't edit this section. Run M-x markdown-toc-refresh-toc -->
**Table of Contents**
- [Usage](#usage)
- [Installation](#installation)
- [Examples](#examples)
- [Alert on completion of shell commands](#alert-on-completion-of-shell-commands)
- [Periodic messages with cron](#periodic-messages-with-cron)
- [Supervisor process state notifications](#supervisor-process-state-notifications)
- [Usage from Python](#usage-from-python)
- [Cron job output](#cron-job-output)
- [ASCII pictures](#ascii-pictures)
- [Questions & Answers](#questions--answers)
- [How to use a proxy?](#how-to-use-a-proxy)
- [How to send the same message to multiple users?](#how-to-send-the-same-message-to-multiple-users)
- [Uninstallation](#uninstallation)
<!-- markdown-toc end -->
# Usage
To send a message:
``` shell
telegram-send "Hello, World!"
```
There is a maximum message length of 4096 characters, larger messages will be
automatically split up into smaller ones and sent separately.
To send a message using Markdown or HTML formatting:
```shell
telegram-send --format markdown "Only the *bold* use _italics_"
telegram-send --format html "<pre>fixed-width messages</pre> are <i>also</i> supported"
telegram-send --format markdown "||Do good and find good!||"
```
Note that not all Markdown syntax or all HTML tags are supported. For more
information on supported formatting, see the [formatting options][]. We use the
MarkdownV2 style for Markdown.
[formatting options]: https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#formatting-options
The `--pre` flag formats messages as fixed-width text:
``` shell
telegram-send --pre "monospace"
```
To send a message without link previews:
``` shell
telegram-send --disable-web-page-preview "https://github.com/rahiel/telegram-send"
```
To send a message from stdin:
``` shell
printf 'With\nmultiple\nlines' | telegram-send --stdin
```
With this option you can send the output of any program.
To send a file (maximum file size of 50 MB) with an optional caption:
``` shell
telegram-send --file quran.pdf --caption "The Noble Qur'an"
```
To send an image (maximum file size of 10 MB) with an optional caption:
``` shell
telegram-send --image moon.jpg --caption "The Moon at Night"
```
To send a sticker:
``` shell
telegram-send --sticker sticker.webp
```
To send a GIF or a soundless MP4 video (encoded as H.264/MPEG-4 AVC with a maximum file size of 50 MB) with an optional caption:
``` shell
telegram-send --animation kitty.gif --caption "🐱"
```
To send an MP4 video (maximum file size of 50 MB) with an optional caption:
``` shell
telegram-send --video birds.mp4 --caption "Singing Birds"
```
To send an audio file with an optional caption:
``` shell
telegram-send --audio "Pachelbel's Canon.mp3" --caption "Johann Pachelbel - Canon in D"
```
To send a location via latitude and longitude:
``` shell
telegram-send --location 35.5398033 -79.7488965
```
All captions can be optionally formatted with Markdown or html:
``` shell
telegram-send --image moon.jpg --caption "The __Moon__ at *Night*" --format markdown
```
Telegram-send integrates into your file manager (Thunar, Nautilus and Nemo):

# Installation
Install telegram-send system-wide with pip:
``` shell
sudo pip3 install telegram-send
```
Or if you want to install it for a single user without root permissions:
``` shell
pip3 install telegram-send
```
If installed for a single user you need to add `~/.local/bin` to their path,
refer to this [guide][] for instructions.
And finally configure it with `telegram-send --configure` if you want to send to
your account, `telegram-send --configure-group` to send to a group or with
`telegram-send --configure-channel` to send to a channel.
Use the `--config` option to use multiple configurations. For example to set up
sending to a channel in a non-default configuration: `telegram-send --config
channel.conf --configure-channel`. Then always specify the config file to use
it: `telegram-send --config channel.conf "Bismillah"`.
The `-g` option uses the global configuration at `/etc/telegram-send.conf`.
Configure it once: `sudo telegram-send -g --configure` and all users on the
system can send messages with this config: `telegram-send -g "GNU"` (provided
you've installed it system-wide.)
[guide]: https://www.rahielkasim.com/installing-programs-from-non-system-package-managers-without-sudo/
# Examples
Here are some examples to get a taste of what is possible with telegram-send.
## Alert on completion of shell commands
Receive an alert when long-running commands finish with the `tg` alias, based on
Ubuntu's built-in `alert`. Put the following in your `~/.bashrc`:
``` shell
alias tg='telegram-send "$([ $? = 0 ] && echo "" || echo "error: ") $(history|tail -n1|sed -e '\''s/^\s*[0-9]\+\s*//;s/[;&|]\s*tg$//'\'')"'
```
And then use it like `sleep 10; tg`. This will send you a message with the
completed command, in this case `sleep 10`.
What if you started a program and forgot to set the alert? Suspend the program
with Ctrl+Z and then enter `fg; telegram-send "your message here"`.
To automatically receive notifications for long running commands, use [ntfy][]
with the Telegram backend.
[ntfy]: https://github.com/dschep/ntfy
## Periodic messages with cron
We can combine telegram-send with [cron][] to periodically send messages. Here
we will set up a cron job to send the [Astronomy Picture of the Day][apod] to
the [astropod][] channel.
Create a bot by talking to the [BotFather][], create a public channel and add
your bot as administrator to the channel. You will need to explicitly search for
your bot's username when adding it. Then run `telegram-send --configure-channel
--config astropod.conf`. We will use the [apod.py][] script that gets the daily
picture and calls telegram-send to post it to the channel.
We create a cron job `/etc/cron.d/astropod` (as root) with the content:
``` shell
SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
# m h dom mon dow user command
0 1 * * * telegram ~/apod.py --config ~/astropod.conf
```
Make sure the file ends with a newline. Cron will then execute the script every
day at 1:00 as the user `telegram`. Join the [astropod][] channel to see the
result.
[cron]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron
[apod]: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
[astropod]: https://telegram.me/astropod
[botfather]: https://telegram.me/botfather
[apod.py]: https://github.com/rahiel/telegram-send/blob/master/examples/apod.py
## Supervisor process state notifications
[Supervisor][] controls and monitors processes. It can start processes at boot,
restart them if they fail and also report on their status. [Supervisor-alert][]
is a simple plugin for Supervisor that sends messages on process state updates
to an arbitrary program. Using it with telegram-send (by using the `--telegram`
option), you can receive notifications whenever one of your processes exits.
[supervisor]: http://supervisord.org
[supervisor-alert]: https://github.com/rahiel/supervisor-alert
## Usage from Python
Because telegram-send is written in Python, you can use its functionality
directly from other Python programs: `import telegram_send`. Look at the
[documentation][].
[documentation]: https://www.rahielkasim.com/telegram-send/docs/api/
## Cron job output
Cron has a built-in feature to send the output of jobs via mail. In this example
we'll send cron output over Telegram. Here is the example cron job:
``` shell
SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
# m h dom mon dow user command
0 * * * * rahiel chronic ~/script.bash 2>&1 | telegram-send -g --stdin
```
The command is `chronic ~/script.bash 2>&1 | telegram-send -g --stdin`. We run
the cron job with `chronic`, a tool from [moreutils][]. Chronic makes sure that
a command produces no output unless it fails. No news is good news! If our
script fails, chronic passes the output through the pipe (`|`) to telegram-send.
We also send the output of stderr by redirecting stderr to stdout (`2>&1`).
Here we've installed telegram-send system-wide with `sudo` and use the global
configuration (`-g`) so `telegram-send` is usable in the cron job. Place the
cron job in `/etc/cron.d/` and make sure the file ends with a newline. The
filename can't contain a `.` either.
[moreutils]: https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/
## ASCII pictures
Combining `--stdin` and `--pre`, we can send ASCII pictures:
``` shell
ncal -bh | telegram-send --pre --stdin
apt-get moo | telegram-send --pre --stdin
```
# Questions & Answers
## How to use a proxy?
You can set a proxy with an environment variable:
``` shell
https_proxy=https://ip:port telegram-send "hello"
```
Within Python you can set the environment variable with:
``` python
os.environ["https_proxy"] = "https://ip:port"
```
If you have a SOCKS proxy, you need to install support for it:
``` python
pip3 install pysocks
```
If you installed `telegram-send` with `sudo`, you also need to install `pysocks`
with `sudo`.
## How to send the same message to multiple users?
First you configure telegram-send for every recipient you want to send messages to:
``` shell
telegram-send --config user1.conf --configure
telegram-send --config group1.conf --configure-group
telegram-send --config group2.conf --configure-group
telegram-send --config channel1.conf --configure-channel
```
You will need all of the above config files. Now to send a message to all of the
above configured recipients:
``` shell
telegram-send --config user1.conf \
--config group1.conf \
--config group2.conf \
--config channel1.conf \
"Multicasting!"
```
## How to get sticker files?
In Telegram Desktop you right click a sticker and choose "Save Image As...". You
can then send the saved `webp` file with `telegram-send --sticker sticker.webp`.
# Uninstallation
``` shell
sudo telegram-send --clean
sudo pip3 uninstall telegram-send
```
Or if you installed it for a single user:
``` shell
telegram-send --clean
pip3 uninstall telegram-send
```
%package help
Summary: Development documents and examples for telegram-send
Provides: python3-telegram-send-doc
%description help
# telegram-send
[](https://pypi.org/project/telegram-send/)
[](https://pypi.org/project/telegram-send/)
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[](https://github.com/rahiel/telegram-send/blob/master/LICENSE.txt)
Telegram-send is a command-line tool to send messages and files over Telegram to
your account, to a group or to a channel. It provides a simple interface that
can be easily called from other programs.
<!-- markdown-toc start - Don't edit this section. Run M-x markdown-toc-refresh-toc -->
**Table of Contents**
- [Usage](#usage)
- [Installation](#installation)
- [Examples](#examples)
- [Alert on completion of shell commands](#alert-on-completion-of-shell-commands)
- [Periodic messages with cron](#periodic-messages-with-cron)
- [Supervisor process state notifications](#supervisor-process-state-notifications)
- [Usage from Python](#usage-from-python)
- [Cron job output](#cron-job-output)
- [ASCII pictures](#ascii-pictures)
- [Questions & Answers](#questions--answers)
- [How to use a proxy?](#how-to-use-a-proxy)
- [How to send the same message to multiple users?](#how-to-send-the-same-message-to-multiple-users)
- [Uninstallation](#uninstallation)
<!-- markdown-toc end -->
# Usage
To send a message:
``` shell
telegram-send "Hello, World!"
```
There is a maximum message length of 4096 characters, larger messages will be
automatically split up into smaller ones and sent separately.
To send a message using Markdown or HTML formatting:
```shell
telegram-send --format markdown "Only the *bold* use _italics_"
telegram-send --format html "<pre>fixed-width messages</pre> are <i>also</i> supported"
telegram-send --format markdown "||Do good and find good!||"
```
Note that not all Markdown syntax or all HTML tags are supported. For more
information on supported formatting, see the [formatting options][]. We use the
MarkdownV2 style for Markdown.
[formatting options]: https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#formatting-options
The `--pre` flag formats messages as fixed-width text:
``` shell
telegram-send --pre "monospace"
```
To send a message without link previews:
``` shell
telegram-send --disable-web-page-preview "https://github.com/rahiel/telegram-send"
```
To send a message from stdin:
``` shell
printf 'With\nmultiple\nlines' | telegram-send --stdin
```
With this option you can send the output of any program.
To send a file (maximum file size of 50 MB) with an optional caption:
``` shell
telegram-send --file quran.pdf --caption "The Noble Qur'an"
```
To send an image (maximum file size of 10 MB) with an optional caption:
``` shell
telegram-send --image moon.jpg --caption "The Moon at Night"
```
To send a sticker:
``` shell
telegram-send --sticker sticker.webp
```
To send a GIF or a soundless MP4 video (encoded as H.264/MPEG-4 AVC with a maximum file size of 50 MB) with an optional caption:
``` shell
telegram-send --animation kitty.gif --caption "🐱"
```
To send an MP4 video (maximum file size of 50 MB) with an optional caption:
``` shell
telegram-send --video birds.mp4 --caption "Singing Birds"
```
To send an audio file with an optional caption:
``` shell
telegram-send --audio "Pachelbel's Canon.mp3" --caption "Johann Pachelbel - Canon in D"
```
To send a location via latitude and longitude:
``` shell
telegram-send --location 35.5398033 -79.7488965
```
All captions can be optionally formatted with Markdown or html:
``` shell
telegram-send --image moon.jpg --caption "The __Moon__ at *Night*" --format markdown
```
Telegram-send integrates into your file manager (Thunar, Nautilus and Nemo):

# Installation
Install telegram-send system-wide with pip:
``` shell
sudo pip3 install telegram-send
```
Or if you want to install it for a single user without root permissions:
``` shell
pip3 install telegram-send
```
If installed for a single user you need to add `~/.local/bin` to their path,
refer to this [guide][] for instructions.
And finally configure it with `telegram-send --configure` if you want to send to
your account, `telegram-send --configure-group` to send to a group or with
`telegram-send --configure-channel` to send to a channel.
Use the `--config` option to use multiple configurations. For example to set up
sending to a channel in a non-default configuration: `telegram-send --config
channel.conf --configure-channel`. Then always specify the config file to use
it: `telegram-send --config channel.conf "Bismillah"`.
The `-g` option uses the global configuration at `/etc/telegram-send.conf`.
Configure it once: `sudo telegram-send -g --configure` and all users on the
system can send messages with this config: `telegram-send -g "GNU"` (provided
you've installed it system-wide.)
[guide]: https://www.rahielkasim.com/installing-programs-from-non-system-package-managers-without-sudo/
# Examples
Here are some examples to get a taste of what is possible with telegram-send.
## Alert on completion of shell commands
Receive an alert when long-running commands finish with the `tg` alias, based on
Ubuntu's built-in `alert`. Put the following in your `~/.bashrc`:
``` shell
alias tg='telegram-send "$([ $? = 0 ] && echo "" || echo "error: ") $(history|tail -n1|sed -e '\''s/^\s*[0-9]\+\s*//;s/[;&|]\s*tg$//'\'')"'
```
And then use it like `sleep 10; tg`. This will send you a message with the
completed command, in this case `sleep 10`.
What if you started a program and forgot to set the alert? Suspend the program
with Ctrl+Z and then enter `fg; telegram-send "your message here"`.
To automatically receive notifications for long running commands, use [ntfy][]
with the Telegram backend.
[ntfy]: https://github.com/dschep/ntfy
## Periodic messages with cron
We can combine telegram-send with [cron][] to periodically send messages. Here
we will set up a cron job to send the [Astronomy Picture of the Day][apod] to
the [astropod][] channel.
Create a bot by talking to the [BotFather][], create a public channel and add
your bot as administrator to the channel. You will need to explicitly search for
your bot's username when adding it. Then run `telegram-send --configure-channel
--config astropod.conf`. We will use the [apod.py][] script that gets the daily
picture and calls telegram-send to post it to the channel.
We create a cron job `/etc/cron.d/astropod` (as root) with the content:
``` shell
SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
# m h dom mon dow user command
0 1 * * * telegram ~/apod.py --config ~/astropod.conf
```
Make sure the file ends with a newline. Cron will then execute the script every
day at 1:00 as the user `telegram`. Join the [astropod][] channel to see the
result.
[cron]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron
[apod]: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
[astropod]: https://telegram.me/astropod
[botfather]: https://telegram.me/botfather
[apod.py]: https://github.com/rahiel/telegram-send/blob/master/examples/apod.py
## Supervisor process state notifications
[Supervisor][] controls and monitors processes. It can start processes at boot,
restart them if they fail and also report on their status. [Supervisor-alert][]
is a simple plugin for Supervisor that sends messages on process state updates
to an arbitrary program. Using it with telegram-send (by using the `--telegram`
option), you can receive notifications whenever one of your processes exits.
[supervisor]: http://supervisord.org
[supervisor-alert]: https://github.com/rahiel/supervisor-alert
## Usage from Python
Because telegram-send is written in Python, you can use its functionality
directly from other Python programs: `import telegram_send`. Look at the
[documentation][].
[documentation]: https://www.rahielkasim.com/telegram-send/docs/api/
## Cron job output
Cron has a built-in feature to send the output of jobs via mail. In this example
we'll send cron output over Telegram. Here is the example cron job:
``` shell
SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
# m h dom mon dow user command
0 * * * * rahiel chronic ~/script.bash 2>&1 | telegram-send -g --stdin
```
The command is `chronic ~/script.bash 2>&1 | telegram-send -g --stdin`. We run
the cron job with `chronic`, a tool from [moreutils][]. Chronic makes sure that
a command produces no output unless it fails. No news is good news! If our
script fails, chronic passes the output through the pipe (`|`) to telegram-send.
We also send the output of stderr by redirecting stderr to stdout (`2>&1`).
Here we've installed telegram-send system-wide with `sudo` and use the global
configuration (`-g`) so `telegram-send` is usable in the cron job. Place the
cron job in `/etc/cron.d/` and make sure the file ends with a newline. The
filename can't contain a `.` either.
[moreutils]: https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/
## ASCII pictures
Combining `--stdin` and `--pre`, we can send ASCII pictures:
``` shell
ncal -bh | telegram-send --pre --stdin
apt-get moo | telegram-send --pre --stdin
```
# Questions & Answers
## How to use a proxy?
You can set a proxy with an environment variable:
``` shell
https_proxy=https://ip:port telegram-send "hello"
```
Within Python you can set the environment variable with:
``` python
os.environ["https_proxy"] = "https://ip:port"
```
If you have a SOCKS proxy, you need to install support for it:
``` python
pip3 install pysocks
```
If you installed `telegram-send` with `sudo`, you also need to install `pysocks`
with `sudo`.
## How to send the same message to multiple users?
First you configure telegram-send for every recipient you want to send messages to:
``` shell
telegram-send --config user1.conf --configure
telegram-send --config group1.conf --configure-group
telegram-send --config group2.conf --configure-group
telegram-send --config channel1.conf --configure-channel
```
You will need all of the above config files. Now to send a message to all of the
above configured recipients:
``` shell
telegram-send --config user1.conf \
--config group1.conf \
--config group2.conf \
--config channel1.conf \
"Multicasting!"
```
## How to get sticker files?
In Telegram Desktop you right click a sticker and choose "Save Image As...". You
can then send the saved `webp` file with `telegram-send --sticker sticker.webp`.
# Uninstallation
``` shell
sudo telegram-send --clean
sudo pip3 uninstall telegram-send
```
Or if you installed it for a single user:
``` shell
telegram-send --clean
pip3 uninstall telegram-send
```
%prep
%autosetup -n telegram-send-0.34
%build
%py3_build
%install
%py3_install
install -d -m755 %{buildroot}/%{_pkgdocdir}
if [ -d doc ]; then cp -arf doc %{buildroot}/%{_pkgdocdir}; fi
if [ -d docs ]; then cp -arf docs %{buildroot}/%{_pkgdocdir}; fi
if [ -d example ]; then cp -arf example %{buildroot}/%{_pkgdocdir}; fi
if [ -d examples ]; then cp -arf examples %{buildroot}/%{_pkgdocdir}; fi
pushd %{buildroot}
if [ -d usr/lib ]; then
find usr/lib -type f -printf "/%h/%f\n" >> filelist.lst
fi
if [ -d usr/lib64 ]; then
find usr/lib64 -type f -printf "/%h/%f\n" >> filelist.lst
fi
if [ -d usr/bin ]; then
find usr/bin -type f -printf "/%h/%f\n" >> filelist.lst
fi
if [ -d usr/sbin ]; then
find usr/sbin -type f -printf "/%h/%f\n" >> filelist.lst
fi
touch doclist.lst
if [ -d usr/share/man ]; then
find usr/share/man -type f -printf "/%h/%f.gz\n" >> doclist.lst
fi
popd
mv %{buildroot}/filelist.lst .
mv %{buildroot}/doclist.lst .
%files -n python3-telegram-send -f filelist.lst
%dir %{python3_sitelib}/*
%files help -f doclist.lst
%{_docdir}/*
%changelog
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