telegram-msg

Interactively sends messages (or optionally an image) to a specified group in Telegram.

Copyright (C) 2020 Denis Meyer

Prerequisites

• Python 3
• Windows
  • Add Python to PATH variable in environment

TODO before using

• Create a token ** https://t.me/botfather ( https://core.telegram.org/bots#6-botfather )
• Get chat ID ** Add the Telegram bot to the group ** Get the list of updates for your BOT: https://api.telegram.org/bot/getUpdates ** Look for the "chat" object
• Fill in the token and chat ID in Main.py

Usage

• Start shell
  • Windows
    • Start shell as administrator
    • Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Force
• Create a virtual environment
  • python -m venv venv
• Activate the virtual environment
  • Mac/Linux
    • source venv/bin/activate
  • Windows
    • .\venv\scripts\activate
• Install the required libraries
  • pip install -r requirements.txt
• Run the app
  • python Main.py