How to ping telegram programatically

Pinging telegram from terminal

## Pinging Telegram from Terminal

1. Create a bot  
   - In Telegram, chat with @BotFather → ```/newbot``` → copy the returned *HTTP API token*.

2. Find your chat ID (where the message should arrive)  
   - Send any message to your new bot.  
   - From a terminal run:  
     ```bash
     curl -s "https://api.telegram.org/bot<YOUR_TOKEN>/getUpdates"
     ```  
   - In the JSON response look for ```"chat":{"id":123456789, ...}``` – that number is your ```chat_id```.

3. Send the notification  
   ```bash
   curl -s -X POST "https://api.telegram.org/bot<YOUR_TOKEN>/sendMessage" \
        -d chat_id=<CHAT_ID> \
        -d text="Hello from the terminal 🚀"
   ```
   
   Now you can save that curl as a command or a bash function with parameters.