Send backup notifications via telegram using Duplicacy Utils Telegram Bot

TheBestPessimist · 3 January 2019 20:11

Duplicacy Utils Telegram Bot

I created a telegram bot to use for my duplicacy-utils scripts, but then i though you can use it from any of your scripts (as long as you use telegram and want to be notified ).

The github link is: Duplicacy Utils Telegram Bot, but there’s no need to look there since that’s the server side!

How to use

get the telegramToken from @DuplicacyUtilsTBPBot
send a Post request to https://duplicacy-utils.tbp.land/userUpdate with the body containing a json encoded string with 2 fields:
- content containing a string with your message
- chat_id containing the telegram token from before

Example of usage in powershell:

$payload = @{
  content = "You can write anything: <code>this is monospaced</code>, <i>italic</i>, <b>bold</b>."
  chat_id = 1234567890
  }

Invoke-WebRequest `
  -Body (ConvertTo-Json -Compress -InputObject $payload) `
  -ContentType 'application/json' `
  -Method Post `
  -Uri "https://duplicacy-utils.tbp.land/userUpdate"

Example of usage as `post-backup.bat` script:

;@echo off
;Findstr -rbv ; %0 | powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -c -
;goto:sCode


;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; this is a bat file which calls powershell do do a web-request.
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; here starts the powershell code
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

$payload = @{
  content = "Duplicacy backup finished."
  chat_id = 1234567890
  }

Invoke-WebRequest `
  -Body (ConvertTo-Json -Compress -InputObject $payload) `
  -ContentType 'application/json' `
  -Method Post `
  -Uri "https://duplicacy-utils.tbp.land/userUpdate"


;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; the powershell code is finished now
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;


;:sCode
;echo done

You just have to save that piece of code as post-backup.bat as per Pre Command and Post Command Scripts and fill the chat_id with the one received from the bot.
By doing this: after each backup duplicacy calls the post-backup.bat script and you see a notification on telegram.

Here’s how the notification looks like

This is from a single duplicacy command

This is from multiple commands

1 is the header which informs the path of the current backup
2, 3 informs of the currently executing command (2=backup, 3=prune in my case)
4 informs the status of the status of the whole run (if any of the commands fail, then status = failure)