Notify-me

A shell function that notifies you via a Telegram bot.

It's useful when you need to compile a big project (like Qt 5.6) and want to get a notification when it finishes, but it can also be used to send messages through your bot!

Usage

First of all, if you haven't got a token (for example because you have never made a Telegram Bot) ask BotFather, just send /newbot and follow the procedure. Finally take the string after "Use this token to access the HTTP API:", it should appear similar to this:

318682111:AAFouzmHLujO17LY3VJUfhnp4yn8qLIo9Uw

If you don't know your Telegram's chat_id 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.

Or you could send a message to your own bot and then use this link. You should see then that your message has been received by your bot and is listed. Traversing the json you should find a chat key with an id key inside which value is exactly your chat_id.

Now the procedure differs based on which OS you're using.

Linux and macOS

You can either:

1. Run the script with: bash notify.sh
2. Copy the script's code in your ~/.bashrc (if this file doesn't exist create it with $ touch ~/.bashrc) to call it without bash first.

If you're using Linux restart the terminal or run this to apply the changes:

source ~/.bashrc

If you're using MacOS edit (or create) a ~/.bash_profile and repeat the same procedure but replace all occurrencies of ~/.bashrc with ~/.bash_profile in the previous commands.

You can try 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.

Windows

If you're using Windows you actually have three options:

1. You could make a copy of example_config.json in the same folder, rename it to config.json and insert the correct values in each field. Then you could use: .\notify.ps1 -c This will load data from the default configuration file, the one you just created!
2. Or you could use the previous command but pass a second argument which will be the path to another config.json file
3. Or you could skip the bureaucracy and pass all configurations with a single command: .\notify.ps1 <chat_id> <bot_token> A third argument could be provided to change message text

Enjoy!

If you want to report something you could either:

• Open an issue
• Ask Helias via Telegram (Linux and macOS)
• Ask Lorenzo via Telegram (Windows)