Overview

Wondering if your build finished? Tepe is a CLI that lets you command a bot to send messages and files over Telegram.

Installation

1. Download Tepe

Be sure you've installed Rust on your computer.

bash git clone https://github.com/Hermitter/tepe && cd tepe cargo install --path .

2. Create Your Bot and Save the Token

Talk to @Botfather and go through some dialog options until you've successfully created a bot. You should receive a token in the format of 123456789:blablabla

Export the token by exposing it as an environmental variable

```bash

Unix-like

export TEPETELEGRAMBOTTOKEN=PlaceBotTokenHere ```

```bash

Windows

set TEPETELEGRAMBOTTOKEN=PlaceBotTokenHere ```

3. Find the Chat ID with your Bot

You can start talking to your bot by visiting (https://t.me/YOURBOTNAME_HERE).

Once inside the chat, run the following command. The bot will print the chat_id of any chatroom that messages it.

tepe test

Example output:

```

Your Telegram bot is now running! Try sending a message. On success, the chat_id is printed.

Press Ctrl+c to exit.

Successful reply from chat_id: 923567462

```

4. Send Messages

TEPETELEGRAMCHAT_ID can be used to avoid setting the same chat_id every time

You're now ready to send messages!

Example command:

bash tepe send ./shopping_list.txt ./some_photo.png -m "here are your things"

Usage:

```bash USAGE: tepe send [OPTIONS] [--] [files]...

FLAGS: -h, --help Prints help information -V, --version Prints version information

OPTIONS: -c, --chat ... Specifies a new Telegram chat id. This will not ignore the TEPETELEGRAMCHATID variable. -m, --message String to pass into a Telegram message. -t, --token Sets the Telegram bot token. This ignores the TEPETELEGRAMBOTTOKEN variable.

ARGS: ... ```