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Telepost is a simple gateway to Telegram, which can post messages and respond to primitive requests.

First, get your token from [@BotFather](https://t.me/BotFather).

Then, install it:

```bash
$ gem install telepost
```

Then, use it like this:

```ruby
require 'telepost'
tp = Telepost.new('..token..')
Thread.start do
  tp.run do |chat, msg|
    tp.post(chat: chat, 'Thanks for talking to me!')
  end
end
tp.post(chat: 12345, 'How are you?', 'How are you doing?')
```

All lines you provide to the `post()` method will be concatenated
with a space between them.

Or you can pre-configure it to talk to certain list of chats.
Your bot has to be an admin of the channel, in order to post there.
Here is how you "spam":

```ruby
tp = Telepost.new('..token..', chats: ['my_channel'])
tp.spam('How are you?')
```

That's it.

# How to contribute

Read [these guidelines](https://www.yegor256.com/2014/04/15/github-guidelines.html).
Make sure you build is green before you contribute
your pull request. You will need to have [Ruby](https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/) 2.3+ and
[Bundler](https://bundler.io/) installed. Then:

```
$ bundle update
$ bundle exec rake
```

If it's clean and you don't see any error messages, submit your pull request.

# License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2018 Yegor Bugayenko

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the 'Software'), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED 'AS IS', WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
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SOFTWARE.