telegram-ping-ip/README.md

Telegram Bot for Sending IP-address of a server if Dynamic IP has changed.

Inspired by indicozy/telegram-ping-ip

Getting started.

Requirements:

• curl - Install with whatever package manager you use
• screen - Optional requirement to run script in background.

Clone repo and Configure

git clone https://github.com/shihaamabr/telegram-ping-ip.git
cd telegram-ping-ip
chmod +x telegram-ping-ip.sh screen-telegram-ping-ip.sh
cp env.sample .env

• Edit the contents of .env to your config (nano .env)

Running

Execute the script - Forground

./telegram-ping-ip.sh - Background 

Run the script in a screen

./screen-telegram-ping-ip.sh

Run at system boot up

• Add it to a crontab, Run: crontab -e

@reboot /bin/bash /path/to/telegram-ping-ip/screen-telegram-ping-ip.sh

Future plans

• create a daemon, idk, it seems interesting

Additional Information

FYI IT pings to whatismyip.shihaam.me by default, this can be configured in .env to use ifconfig.me or whatever else server.

Bugs

• You tell me :)