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I moved to Telegram because Whatsapp doesn't allow robots. I have a robot that sends me alerts from the database I manage (lag on the dataguard, tablespace with less than 100MB free, etc). It is really useful.

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Do you have an example article or resource for such a use? I'd like to carry over notifications to the IM instead of cluttering my e-mail needlessly.

There's a Bot API which is really simple to access: https://core.telegram.org/bots/api

I used this Perl template of a bot: https://www.snip2code.com/Snippet/655828/Basic-Telegram-bot-...

And wrote down the steps I took to build a bot that sends pictures from an IP camera (in Portuguese): http://alquerubim.blogspot.com.br/2016/02/solucao-caseira-pa...

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