I found there were a number of things that I wanted a personal telegram bot to do which would have been relatively difficult or annoying to implement in a full-blown programming language, but pretty easy to string together a shell script for. So I wrote this program that acts sort of like a classic CGI gateway for Telegram conversations, forwarding messages over stdin/stdout.
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