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Setup Telegram Notifications for your Shell

Sometimes recon scripts take forever. I like to keep them running while doing something else, so I was looking for a way to get a notification when they are finished. I found that it is quite easy to set up Telegram notifications. To do so, simply follow these steps:

1. Search @BotFather on Telegram, and send him a /start message.
2. Next create a bot by sending the /newbot command.
3. Follow the Botfathers instructions and give your bot a name
4. You will receive an API token. Save it.
5. Open a shell
6. Run telegram_api_token="APITOKEN" with your API token
7. In Telegram, search for the Name that you gave your Bot, and send it a /start message.
8. In your shell, run curl "https://api.telegram.org/bot$telegram_api_token/getUpdates" | jq '.result[0].message.chat.id' to get your chat_id
9. add the following to your .zshrc, or .bashrc

   tnotify(){
    message=$1
    token="YOURAPITOKEN"
    chatid="YOURCHATID"
    curl -s -X POST https://api.telegram.org/bot$token/sendMessage -d chat_id=$chatid -d text="$message"
   }
   

Now you can run tnotify "hi" in your shell to get a notification!