textsecure-cli

textsecure-cli is a commandline interface for libtextsecure-java. It supports registering, verifying, sending and receiving messages. However receiving messages currently doesn't work, because libtextsecure-java does not yet support registering for the websocket support. For registering you need a phone number where you can receive SMS. It is primarily intented to be used on servers to notify admins of important events.

Usage

usage: textsecure-cli [-h] -u USERNAME {register,verify,send,receive} ...

• Register a number

    textsecure-cli -u USERNAME register
  

• Verify the number using the code received via SMS

    textsecure-cli -u USERNAME verify CODE
  

• Send a message to one or more recipients

    textsecure-cli -u USERNAME send -m "This is a message" [RECIPIENT [RECIPIENT ...]]
  

• Pipe the message content from another process.

    uname -a | textsecure-cli -u USERNAME send [RECIPIENT [RECIPIENT ...]]
  

Storage

The password and cryptographic keys are created when registering and stored in the current users home directory.

    $HOME/.config/textsecure/data/

Building

This project uses Gradle for building and maintaining dependencies.

1. Checkout the source somewhere on your filesystem wit

    git clone https://github.com/AsamK/textsecure-cli.git
   

2. Execute Gradle:

    ./gradlew build
   

3. Create shell wrapper in build/install/textsecure-cli/bin:

    ./gradlew installApp
   

4. Create tar file:

    ./gradlew distTar
   

License

This project uses libtextsecure-java from Open Whisper Systems:

https://github.com/WhisperSystems/libtextsecure-java

Licensed under the GPLv3: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html