Adding line break to text message using Telegram bot

Question

im trying to send telegram messages from Linux bash using curl. My current problem is that i am unable to send line breaks in the message.

My code is something like this:

msg="<a href=\"${img}\">&#160;</a><b>${title}</b><a href=\"${lnk}\">MORE INFO</a>"

curl --data chat_id=$chatID --data-urlencode "text=${msg}" "https://api.telegram.org/bot${apik}/sendMessage?parse_mode=HTML"

i tried with </br> \n %0D%0A, and none work.

Answer 1

Maybe try setting your $msg variable as a heredoc:

#!/bin/bash

img="one"
title="two"
lnk="three"

read -r -d '' msg <<EOT
<a href="${img}"></a>
<b>"${title}"</b>
<a href="${lnk}">MORE INFO</a>
EOT

curl --data chat_id="$chatID" --data-urlencode "text=${msg}" "https://api.telegram.org/bot${apik}/sendMessage?parse_mode=HTML"

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