** IT WORKS (UPDATED: 2022-03-27) **

This is a Chrome extension that allow you to send web content (tab, text, image) to your own "Telegram Bot" using official Telegram API, such that your can sync interesting things across devices, i.e., your phone, your PC, and your laptop.

This project is an alternative for Pushbullet which stopped release on iOS (Not Available on iOS : PushBullet). Since third party server is not required for this extension, so you do not need to worry about privacy.

This extension can be installed from Chrome Web Store - Send to Telegram for Google Chrome (recommended) or the release page.

0. Install "Send to Telegram for Google Chrome" from Chrome Web Store.
1. Create a Telegram Bot following Telegram official introduction and get your bot <API token>.
2. Get your <User ID> by visiting https://api.telegram.org/bot<API token>/getUpdates after you send arbitrary content to your bot in telegram APP. The field "id" in the HTTP response is your <User ID>.
3. Fill your <API token> and <User ID> in the extension setting page. If everything is going on smoothly, the setting page will show a green "Saved!" and your bot will send your a massage of "Setting for 'Send-to-Telegram' successfully."

You can use this extension intuitively:

• Send tab to your bot
  • click on the top right extension icon .
• Send text to your bot
  • select web content and right click -> Push this selection to Telegram Bot.
• Send image to your bot
  • right click on an image -> Send to Telegram for Google Chrome.
• Send URL to yout bot
  • right click on a URL -> Send to Telegram for Google Chrome.

• v0.9 - Mar. 31, 2021
  • The first release.

• Add shortcut (suggested by brucmao).
• Add user interface for sending custom content (suggested by he110comex and Tgeek).
• Send image file instead of URL (suggested by jemyzhang).
• Set up API URL manually (suggested by windyskr).
• Obtain <API token> automatically.
• Open new tab in Chrome when a URL is send to bot from phone.

This project is licensed under the MIT License, see the LICENSE file for details.

This project was forked from rahimnathwani/pushover-for-chrome for Pushover.