Send Telegram messages with curl

sendMessage.md

Send Telegram messages with curl

Dependencies

• curl: command-line tool for transferring data with URLs
• jq: lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor

Environment

Firstly, you need to export BOT_TOKEN and CHAT_ID:

export BAT_TOKEN="<your_bot_token>"
export CHAT_ID="<your_chat_id>"

Send

• sendMessage

sendMessage

curl -s -X POST "https://api.telegram.org/bot${BOT_TOKEN}/sendMessage" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8" \
  -d "{
    \"chat_id\": \"${CHAT_ID}\",
    \"text\": \"Simple Text\",
    \"parse_mode\": \"Markdown\",
    \"disable_web_page_preview\": true,
    \"disable_notification\": true,
  }"