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		nikhizzle on Jan 12, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Telegram surpassed 500M active users. 25 mil new u... On thing I love about Telegram is how easy the bot API is. Anytime I need a quick personal CLI to a service that works on mobile, I can get it running in no time. For example, I wrote a script to check flight prices and send me a telegram message when it hit a certain threshold.

Gasp0de on Jan 12, 2021 [–]

Do you know Signal-cli? I'm using it for all my Signal bots. https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli

nikhizzle on Jan 12, 2021 | [–]

I do not, thanks for sending this my way!

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