Why?

I often run heavy computations that take some time -- usually couple of hours. I want to know when computation finishes as soon as possible. And I also use Telegram on daily basis. That's why I've created notify-tg:

./long-running-something && notify-tg 'Calculation successfull' || notify-tg 'Calculation failed' -- receive notification about calculation status
from python -- same as previous, but include constants in message:

subprocess.run(['notify-tg', 'calc finished for <pre>' + constants_prettified + '</pre>'])

Installation

Create file notify-tg.toml in your "config" directory (on Linux: $HOME/.config/), copy-paste contents of example-config.toml there
Create bot with @BotFather. Put token in the config
Write something to your bot (/start), so it can answer back later
Find out your chat_id (you can do that with @showjsonbot)
Put this id into config
You can set prefix -- this line will be prepended to all your messages
Optionally, set/remove proxy
Do cargo install --git https://github.com/Mr-Andersen/notify-tg && notify-tg "notify-tg has been successfully installed!"
When installation finishes, bot will send a message to you. Now when you can send message to yourself with notify-tg "Message"

Features

Validate your config and connection to Telegram servers with running notify-tg without arguments. On success it will show you getMe response -- basic info about your bot, such as its @username.
-i|--include [FILE] flag for sending file captioned with MSG
Messages are html

Lib

https://github.com/teloxide/teloxide

Comment

Yet, compilation time is quite high. I hope to reduce it at some point, by using only part of teloxide (like, its core) and probably something lighter than structopt for CLI

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