Send Message to Telegram Bot

telegram.sh

#!/bin/bash 
bot_key="<API Token from BotFather>"
# Need to send a message to your bot in order to see chat_id. 
chat_id="<chat_id from https://api.telegram.org/bot<bot_key>/getUpdates>"
response=$(curl -s "https://api.telegram.org/bot$bot_key/sendMessage?chat_id=$chat_id&text=$@")
status=$(echo $response | cut -d ':' -f2 | cut -d ',' -f1)
echo "Sent: $status"

spaces in messages need to be quoted.