I have not looked at this in detail, but I can't see what advantages this has over just sending a simple http request like this:<p><pre><code> https://api.telegram.com/botTOKEN/sendMessage?id=YOUR_ID&message="your servers are on fire"
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because that's all you need as far as I know. Works via GET, POST, PUT, everything.<p>Only thing I could see is being able to switch it out for other services easier.
Telegram really deserves more attention than it gets. It has the largest feature set, best multi-platform support with true desktop clients, awesome/fast mobile apps and a large part of the code is open source. What's not to love? Just that none of my friends use it :/
Is there any limit to the number of messages stored in a telegram conversation? Many users report previous messages being deleted without a warning<p><a href="http://telegramgeeks.com/2016/02/telegram-only-shows-us-the-last-million-messages/" rel="nofollow">http://telegramgeeks.com/2016/02/telegram-only-shows-us-the-...</a>
> And they require your little server-side script to include some SMTP library and connect to a mail server. That's too heavyweight just to get some short information.<p>Really? Building and deploying a bot made in an arbitrary language is less onerous than registering for a Gmail account to send mail reports through?<p>Perhaps it's just the author's sense of humour, but this didn't strike me as helpful at all. Notifications can be handy for some things, email for other things. Depends on the person. But it's not hard to set up an email account. That's partly why it's still around.
Shameless plug: I did something similar earlier this year[1]. But instead of running the bot locally, I run it on Google App Engine to provide an HTTPS API. I also have an Android app to call the API to forward Android notifications.<p>My motivation is a little bit different. I made this because Telegram has great Android Auto support, and also has an easy to use Bots API, so I can convert non-Android-Auto-compatible notifications into Android Auto notifications. I explained my motivation in detail in a blog post. [2]<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/fishy/notifbot" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/fishy/notifbot</a><p>[2] <a href="https://wang.yuxuan.org/blog/item/2017/03/smartthings-myq-and-scala" rel="nofollow">https://wang.yuxuan.org/blog/item/2017/03/smartthings-myq-an...</a>
Why is setting up a bush notification system so difficult that it's easier to piggy back on telegram? I have a project I want to do that involves making your own PUSH server (for battery reasons). Would it be difficult to setup
It's funny to see such projects while one of the main reasons to built Telegram in the first place was to built something with a simple http api (vs. the non-http XMPP api) ;-)