Telegram alerts from a QuPath script

sendTelegramMessage.groovy

//use BotFather to create a bot, BotFather can also provide API token for your bot
bot_token="0123456789:AaBcDeFGhxihUjCw6uiE9HED_lLuVy_dummy"

//Start a new chat and add your bot to the chat, get a chat_id for that chat 
//More information about chat id at : https://www.alphr.com/find-chat-id-telegram/
new URL("https://api.telegram.org/bot"+bot_token+"/getUpdates").text //find chat id in the response

//use the chat id found above
chat_id= "-123456789"

//send a message like this
telegramNotification(bot_token,chat_id,"This is a test notification from QuPath :)")

def telegramNotification(bot_token,chat_id,message){
    new URL("https://api.telegram.org/bot"+bot_token+"/sendMessage?chat_id="+chat_id+"&text="+message)
            .getText(connectTimeout: 3000, 
                    readTimeout: 5000, 
                    useCaches: true, 
                    allowUserInteraction: false, 
                    requestProperties: ['Connection': 'close'])
}