Telegram BOT Api: how to send a photo using PHP?

Question

The sendPhoto command require an argument photo defined as InputFile or String.

The API doc tells:

Photo to send. You can          


        

Answer 1

This a bad idea, but you can use some like that:

#!/bin/bash

set -x
set -e

BDIR=/tmp/${RANDOM}
TG_TOKEN=""
TG_CHAT_ID=

mkdir -p ${BDIR}
chmod -R 777 ${BDIR}
su postgres -c "pg_dumpall -f ${BDIR}/postgre.sql"
tar czf ${BDIR}/${HOSTNAME}.tar.gz /var/lib/grafana/ /etc/grafana/ ${BDIR}/postgre.sql


curl -F caption="$(date)" -F chat_id="${TG_CHAT_ID}" -F document=@"${BDIR}/${HOSTNAME}.tar.gz" https://api.telegram.org/bot${TG_TOKEN}/sendDocument

rm -rf ${DBIR}