How to send text and files to other devices in Linux command line via Telegram

[yuxid]

If you work on Linux command line very often, sometimes you may want to send text, files to your devices. telegram-send is such a tool to allow you sending messages across devices. Here is how to do it on Ubuntu 16:

Install telegram-send

To install telegram-send, run this command:

pip3 install telegram-send

Configure telegram

Assuming you already have a telegram account. If not, you need to register a telegram account: https://telegram.org/

Then run command:

$ telegram-send --configure

You will see the output like:

Talk with the BotFather on Telegram (https://telegram.me/BotFather), create a bot and insert the token

Now you need to create a telegram bot to deal with your requests. Open: https://telegram.me/BotFather, click "OPEN IN WEB"

Enter ‘/newbot’ then ‘YOUR_BOT_NAME’ to create a bot. Once you finish, you will see the response from BotFather:

Copy the token given by the BotFather and paste it to the command line window and you will see a message from command line window like:

Please add YOUR_BOT_NAME on Telegram (https://telegram.me/XXXX_bot)
and send it the password: YYYYYY

Follow the above instruction and enter the password in your browser, you will eventually see the message:

Congratulations XXXX!
telegram-send is now ready for use!

Now you may want to install Telegram to your devices. Actually, Telegram has native app on every device:

Test

To send a text to Telegram, just enter:

telegram-send "Hello, telegram"

To send an image, enter:

telegram-send --image 1.png --caption "optional image title"

To send a file, enter:

telegram-send --file FILENAME

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Very nice apps

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