A very small script to send text or files over Telegram by using CLI

tgsend.py

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import argparse
import botogram

DEFAULT_CHAT_ID = 0
DEFAULT_BOT_TOKEN = ''


def main(args):
    bot = botogram.create(DEFAULT_BOT_TOKEN if not args.token else args.token)
    chat = bot.chat(DEFAULT_CHAT_ID if not args.chat_id else args.chat_id)

    if args.file:
        chat.send_file(args.text_or_filename)
    else:
        chat.send(args.text_or_filename, syntax=None)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Send any text or file to a Telegram chat')
    parser.add_argument('-f', '--file',
                        dest='file',
                        action='store_true',
                        help='Send the content as a file',
                        default=False)

    parser.add_argument('-t', '--token',
                        dest='token',
                        action='store',
                        help='Specify a different bot token',
                        default=None,
                        type=str)

    parser.add_argument('-d', '--destination',
                        dest='chat_id',
                        action='store',
                        help='Specify a different chat id',
                        default=None,
                        type=int)

    parser.add_argument(dest='text_or_filename',
                        action='store',
                        help='Text or filename to send')

    args = parser.parse_args()
    main(args)

Requires botogram2 package.