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 or incoming calls. It is primarily intended to be used on servers to notify admins of important events.
usage: textsecure-cli [-h] -u USERNAME {register,verify,send,receive} ...
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Register a number
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
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 ...]]
The password and cryptographic keys are created when registering and stored in the current users home directory.
$HOME/.config/textsecure/data/
This project uses Gradle for building and maintaining dependencies.
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Checkout the source somewhere on your filesystem with
git clone https://github.com/AsamK/textsecure-cli.git -
Execute Gradle:
./gradlew build -
Create shell wrapper in build/install/textsecure-cli/bin:
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Create tar file in build/distributions:
./gradlew distTar
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.
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