user friendly command line client for Telegram
The experimental full-featured curses-like command line client for Telegram is in heavy development, but also already usable!
It uses enricostara's telegram.link to connect to Telegram and chjj's blessed for the UI.
In the GIF demo you can see how it looks. It was recorded with ttystudio, which while being an excellent software, doen't really represent how good it looks with a nice font and proper color scheme. I removed most of my contacts by hacking the program to protect their privacy, but I actually have a few dozen of them and that doesn't cause issues.
As of now, Telecommander lets you:
Waht's missing for version 0.1.0 (Almost done!):
What's missing (for future versions up to 1.0)
Create, modify, manage groups
Two step authentication support
Secret chats
Manage your contacts
Manage your profile
Easy bot interaction
Send and view files, audio messages, images, videos, links
Emoticons (they show up as question marks)
Sign out (without having to manually delete files)
Delete account
Reply to and Forward message support
Search, Tab completion, chatbox history
Send multiline messages
Themes and configurability! Basic scripting!
Optimization What could be available after 1.0:
polished plugin API, scripting support
Telecommander as a library
Parsable output mode
More cool stuff!
Most of features depend on telegram.link's still alpha-quality implementation sadly, but it'll come around eventually.
This section shows how to install Telecommander. It will be populated when 0.1 is done!
To start Telecommander from source you'll need:
Let's set it up:
# Download the source
$ git clone https://github.com/fazo96/Telecommander.git
$ cd Telecommander
# If you just need to test it
$ npm install
$ ./telecommander.js
# If you want to install it
# Try with sudo if it doesn't work
$ npm install -g .
$ telecommander
# If npm install fails because of something about "gyp"
# it probably means your python points to python 3
# either swap it with python 2 or if you're on arch linux
# and/or your python 2 executable is "python2" just run this:
$ PYTHON=python2 npm install [-g .]
PLEASE READ: if you fork the project and want to create a custom version of Telecommander please change the app.id and app.hash values in the source (should be in the first 30 lines of code) to the ones you can get (for free) from http://my.telegram.org
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