Notify-me

I made a shell function to notify me via a Telegram bot.

It was useful when I needed to compile a big project (like Qt 5.6) and I needed to know when it finish.

Usage

You can create an alias on your file ~/.bashrc (if this file doesn't exist create it with $ touch ~/.bashrc) just adding and configuring this code:

# Telegram notify
notify() {
	chatid=your_chat_id #chat_id
	token=your_token_bot
	default_message="notify!"

	if [ -z "$@" ]
	then
		curl -s --data-urlencode "text=$default_message" "https://api.telegram.org/bot$token/sendMessage?chat_id=$chatid" > /dev/null
	else
		curl -s --data-urlencode "text=$@" "https://api.telegram.org/bot$token/sendMessage?chat_id=$chatid" > /dev/null
	fi
}

alias notify=notify

If you don't know your chat_id of Telegram talk to @GiveChatId_bot and send to him /chatid, it will write your chat_id, so put it on the configuration instead of your_chat_id

If you haven't a token (so you never made a Bot of Telegram) ask @BotFather, send him /newbot, send him a name of the bot (like NotifyMe) and an username, be sure that this username is not already taken from another user. Finally take the strings after "Use this token to access the HTTP API:", it should be like this:

318682111:AAFouzmHLujO17LY3VJUfhnp4yn8qLIo9Uw

Now, restart the terminal or use:

$ source ~/.bashrc

and try to type these commands:

$ notify
$ sleep 3; notify "This is a test!"

the first command should send to you the default_message ("notify!"), the second will send you "This is a test!" after 3 seconds

Enjoy it!

If you want to report something open an issue or ask me via Telegram at @Helias