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Install telegram-send with Homebrew, apt

Command-line tool to send Telegram messages. Version 0.39.2 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-12. Also installable with debian: sudo apt install telegram-send.

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macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%

brew install telegram-send

local Homebrew formula metadata

Linux

Debian aptverified · 92%

sudo apt install telegram-send

Debian stable package indexes · telegram-send · source: deb.debian.org

overview

Package summary

Command-line tool to send Telegram messages

Project links

Commands and aliases

telegram-send

history

Project history and usage

telegram-send is a Python command-line tool for sending Telegram messages and files to a user, group, or channel. It became useful to shell users because it turns Telegram into a notification target for scripts, cron, and long-running commands.

Project history

The rahiel/telegram-send repository was created in April 2016, and PyPI shows early 0.3 and 0.5 releases in May 2016. The early project description already framed it as a command-line tool to send messages and files over Telegram from other programs.

The current README and PyPI page broaden the supported message types and installation paths while keeping the same core idea: configure a bot-backed Telegram destination once, then call `telegram-send` from scripts or pipelines.

Adoption history

telegram-send reached package-manager users through PyPI, Homebrew, Debian, and Ubuntu packaging. Its PyPI classifiers mark it as production/stable and aimed at developers and desktop users on POSIX and Windows.

The tool's adoption niche is pragmatic rather than platform-scale: it is the small CLI people install when they want shell alerts in Telegram without writing Bot API code.

How it is used

Official examples include sending strings, stdin, files, images, stickers, video, audio, and locations; configuring accounts, groups, or channels; alerting when shell commands complete; and piping cron output through `telegram-send -g --stdin`.

Package users care about its config-file behavior because the configured bot token and chat state are the durable part. The global `/etc/telegram-send.conf` mode makes it usable from cron jobs and system scripts.

Why package nerds care

telegram-send is package-nerd significant because it is tiny glue with high leverage: install one executable and a system can notify a human through Telegram from shell, cron, Supervisor, or Python.

Its history is a classic CLI utility arc: a small PyPI project became distro-packaged because the command is easier to standardize than every script reimplementing Telegram Bot API calls.

Timeline

2016: rahiel/telegram-send repository created.
2016: PyPI publishes early telegram-send releases, including 0.3 and 0.5.
2022: PyPI release history shows continued 0.3x maintenance.
2026: telegram-send 0.39.2 is published on PyPI.

Related projects

Telegram Bot API is the service API underneath the workflow.
pipx is recommended in current install docs for isolated Python CLI installation.
ntfy is mentioned in the README as another notification tool for long-running commands.

Sources

security posture

No protected-tool coverage found yet

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for telegram-send. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.

Install behavior

No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

local files

Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.

Configuration files

Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.

Unix: /etc/telegram-send.conf

Credential files

Credential-bearing paths to review before unattended agent runs.

Unix: /etc/telegram-send.confuser_config_dir("telegram-send") + ".conf"

executables

Installed executables

Command	Kind	Exposure	Note
`telegram-send`	executable	indexed executable	Discovered from the local executable index.

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-08-03

manager version0.39.2

manager updated2026-07-12

local dataunknown

upstreamnot available

latest detectednot detected

okNo freshness warnings were generated.

install metadata

Package metadata

Package key	brew:telegram-send
Version	0.39.2
Package manager	Homebrew
Homepage	https://pypi.org/project/telegram-send/
Repository	https://github.com/rahiel/telegram-send
Last updated	2026-07-12T22:48:19-07:00
Pulse	updated
Bottle	not recorded
Service	none declared

source database matches

Other package-manager records

Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.

Debian apt95%

telegram-send 0.37-3

Send messages and files over Telegram from the command-line

https://github.com/rahiel/telegram-send

sudo apt install telegram-send

Section: python
Architecture: all
4 dependencies
normalized package name match
Matched by: Telegram Send

Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: telegram-send from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

Ubuntu apt95%

telegram-send 0.37-2