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I needed something similar, a reverse 'wake-on-lan' command that shuts down or reboots systems (but could be any kind of action), so I created a telegram bot th

I needed something similar, a reverse 'wake-on-lan' command that shuts down or reboots systems (but could be any kind of action), so I created a telegram bot that presents the list of commands over telegram chat app. I liked that I did not have to open any ports or serve http pages, the bot is really just a script that's long polling the telegram servers via https/json.

binwiederhier 5y ago
> long polling the telegram servers via https/json. That's literally what the ntfy API is, too. Long polling over https, either as JSON or SSE or RAW. Dead simple: https://ntfy.sh/docs/subscribe/api/ https://ntfy.sh/docs/subscribe/api/