Show HN: Push More – Receive Webhook Requests in Telegram

We switched from Slack to Telegram a few months ago for our team communication at BetaList. Some of our website notifications (new signups, certain errors, etc) still were sent to Slack though through a variety of integrations.<p>I made a simple service that accepts webhook requests and posts them to Telegram. You can interface with the bot directly (@pushmorebot) or add it to a group to have notifications show up there.<p>You can use it in multiple groups and have different notifications for each.<p>One caveat right now is that that the webhook URL is visible to anyone in the group so be careful when using it in a public group. (If there&#x27;s enough interest I&#x27;ll add some privacy controls.)

This kind of feature can easily be implemented by oneself as we described here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.curry-software.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;blog&#x2F;telegram_unit_fail&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.curry-software.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;blog&#x2F;telegram_unit_fail&#x2F;</a><p>No need for an external service and dependency!<p>Also this approach allows very simple integration into code. I.e. in rust:<p><pre><code> pub fn telegram(msg: &amp;str) { use std::process::Command; if let Err(e) = Command::new(&quot;telegram&quot;).arg(msg).status() { println!(&quot;Error occured while calling the telegram command! {:?}&quot;, e); } }</code></pre>

Haha, I started building something similar using python (not that I like that language, but it seemed like the right tool for what I wanted). Additional features I (partially) added: User verification (click link that&#x27;s reachable only via company IP), notification categories (users can configure which they want to receive) with attachable priority (sender site), user-configurable nagging (based on category and priority, e.g. for build errors the bot can ask the user for an ack) and user-configurable work hours.<p>But my boss decided we wouldn&#x27;t need that, so I stopped working on it. Maybe I can release the code as open source.<p>Edit: User-configuration was via &#x2F;command messages for the 1337 kids and clickable buttons for most options (better convenience&#x2F;less steep learning curve).

I built a quick app with PushMore, to send limited 80 character alerts. It requires a passphrase to send, so that you&#x27;re not spammed all the time.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pingr.xyz" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pingr.xyz</a>

I love it but it has a few catches.<p>could you please escape the whitespace? &quot;hello world&quot; returns me &quot;hello+world&quot; . Also I am trying to configure a nice template on zapier, so I&#x27;d need it to reckon &quot;newline\n&quot; last but not least, parse URLs please!<p>EDIT: looks way better if I send data in JSON instead that raw&#x2F;form

cool I can get the bot to post a PM to me but the website says it also works in group chats..how? no documentation