telegram-cron-shepherd

Simple Telegram message sender written in Bash

You need only Telegram api-key, curl & crontab rules.

jq is used only for debug purposes, you may remove it safely.

Install

git clone --recursive https://github.com/jfoboss/telegram-cron-shepherd

Configure

1. Create Bot: https://core.telegram.org/bots#6-botfather
2. Put API key to BOT_ID variable
3. Enable bot in Telegram & add it to necessary chat
4. Gather chat ID using https://api.telegram.org/bot<your_bot_id>/getUpdates
5. Put chat id to CHATID variable

Use

1. Create necessary CRON rules with messages
2. Profit!