telegram send mesage

telegram_send.sh

#!/bin/bash
# credit to: jogerj (https://gist.github.com/dideler/85de4d64f66c1966788c1b2304b9caf1?permalink_comment_id=4327762#gistcomment-4327762)

TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN="botid:token"
CHAT_ID="1234567890"

send_telegram () {
    title="$1"
    timestamp="$(date -R)"
    msg="$title\n$timestamp\n\n$(echo "$2" | sed -z -e 's|\\|\\\\|g' -e 's|\n|\\n|g' -e 's|\t|\\t|g' -e 's|\"|\\"|g')"
    entities="[{\"offset\":0,\"length\":${#title},\"type\":\"bold\"},{\"offset\":$((${#title}+1)),\"length\":${#timestamp},\"type\":\"italic\"}]"
    data="{\"chat_id\":\"$CHAT_ID\",\"text\":\"$msg\",\"entities\":$entities,\"disable_notification\": true}"
    curl -s -o /dev/null -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d "$data" -X POST https://api.telegram.org/bot$TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN/sendMessage
}