Minimal Coding Telegram Bot Tutorial | Linux utilities only: Curl, JQ, Cron, Bash
Timestamps
1. The bot we're building: 00:00:32
2. Intro to curl: 00:01:51
3. Parsing JSON with JQ: 00:04:38
4. Combining curl and JQ for targeting output from our API: 00:06:50
5. Converting terminal commands to executable shell scripts: 00:10:06
6. Introducing Telegram bots, initialising and getting token: 00:15:13
7. Using curl to interact with the Telegram API: 00:20:13
8. Testing the final shell script: 00:27:29
9. Adding the script as a cron job for scheduling: 00:28:20
Description
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In this tutorial I cover a simple approach to creating a Telegram bot. It will rely on some Linux utilities that you might be unfamiliar with a little bit of that it will be a minor amount of programming when we start doing some Shell scripting but nothing that you would normally associate with creating bots node.js or Python.