Just download the appropriate binary for your OS, place rtelegram in your $PATH and you are good to go.

Or if you have Go installed: go get -u github.com/pyed/rtelegram

Thanks to pyed/rtapi You don't need a complicated webserver setup, All you need is:

• rTorrent compiled with the flag --with-xmlrpc-c. Which you probably already have.
• scgi_port = localhost:5000 in your rtorrent.rc file.

And you should be good to go!

• Getting started
• Commands
• How to get notifications