# rahiel/telegram-send

Send messages and files over Telegram from the command-line.

Repository: https://github.com/rahiel/telegram-send
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/telegram-send
Homepage: https://pypi.org/project/telegram-send/
Language: Python
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: telegram, command-line, python
Last push: 2026-05-19T22:36:22+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 70/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 83, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3783, "days_push": 106, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1012, forks 110 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:13.458161+00:00)

## What it is
A Python command-line tool for sending messages and files over Telegram to your account, groups, or channels. It offers a simple interface easily callable from scripts, cron jobs, and other programs.

## Use cases
- send telegram notifications from shell scripts
- alert me when a long command finishes
- send cron job output to telegram
- send files to my telegram from the command line
- notify supervisor process state changes via telegram
- send messages to a telegram channel from a script

## When to choose
- you want lightweight Telegram messaging from scripts or cron without writing bot code
- you need to pipe command output or files to Telegram from the terminal
- you want a packaged tool available via pip, Debian, or Ubuntu

## When to avoid
- you need a full Telegram client with receiving or interactive chat
- you need a GUI messaging app
- you need messaging on platforms other than Telegram

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: cli, email, developer-tools, workflow-automation
- domain: messaging-platforms, developer-tools
- platform: python, cli
- tags: telegram, notifications, messaging, bot-api, command-line, automation, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- rahiel/telegram-send (main) score 70

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:13.458161+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:11:46.916251+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/rahiel/telegram-send (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:13.458161+00:00, sha 0386216ba875)
  - homepage: https://pypi.org/project/telegram-send/ (fetched 2026-08-29T13:11:35.688801+00:00, sha 4b4e8fead74a)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/telegram-send/json (fetched 2026-08-29T13:11:35.698699+00:00, sha b15822e9b864)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.