textsecure-cli

textsecure-cli is a commandline interface for libtextsecure-java. It supports registering, verifying, sending and receiving messages. However receiving messages currently only works with a patched libtextsecure-java, because libtextsecure-java does not yet support registering for the websocket support. For registering you need a phone number where you can receive SMS or incoming calls. It is primarily intended to be used on servers to notify admins of important events.

Usage

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

• Register a number (with SMS verification)

    textsecure-cli -u USERNAME register
  

• Register a number (with voice verification)

    textsecure-cli -u USERNAME register -v
  

• Verify the number using the code received via SMS or voice

    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 ...]] [-a [ATTACHMENT [ATTACHMENT ...]]]
  

• Pipe the message content from another process.

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

• Groups

• Create a group

     textsecure-cli -u USERNAME updateGroup -n "Group name" -m [MEMBER [MEMBER ...]]
  

• Update a group

     textsecure-cli -u USERNAME updateGroup -g GROUP_ID -n "New group name"
  

• Send a message to a group

     textsecure-cli -u USERNAME send -m "This is a message" -g GROUP_ID
  

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 with

    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 installDist
   

4. Create tar file in build/distributions:

    ./gradlew distTar
   

Troubleshooting

If you use a version of the Oracle JRE and get an InvalidKeyException you need to enable unlimited strength crypto. See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6481627/java-security-illegal-key-size-or-default-parameters for instructions.

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