tg VS weechat-discord

Telegram CLI

Hmm I had some experience with Telegram bots. So if the case is that you just need the notification about new message to the stdout of the command line, I would suggest Telethon library. It acts as usual client, therefore it's not a bot and you don't have to register it at BotFather. Yet you'll have to create an application for https://my.telegram.org/apps and get credentials from there. Also check out unofficial CLI tool: https://github.com/vysheng/tg/

Check this out then https://github.com/vysheng/tg

Fair enough, that seems to be the best course of action. From the Telegram website they list this unofficial CLI app, guaranteed this one won't take any GPU resources.

Ok this sure beats the living daylight out of my script with sed and other useless stuff. It did print out the output I needed in the subshell. I got a FAIL: 38: can not parse arg #1 from Telegram-Cli but this seems to be a known bug, besides the scope of my bash script. Thank you.

I tried a couple of those projects (to even somehow script them to make it automatic/daily) but no use. There is https://github.com/vysheng/tg which I was able to use to connect to telegram but trying to use https://github.com/tvdstaaij/telegram-history-dump/ failed with exception (mostly because of Ruby).

In this case, we are lucky. We have a well-supported CLI application, telegram-cli. To try this, after installing, run:

Sadly no, but its more privacy respecting than the regular client for sure. FOSS options include: https://github.com/diamondburned/gtkcord4 https://github.com/uowuo/abaddon https://github.com/terminal-discord/weechat-discord (weechat plugin to use Discord within weechat) https://github.com/evelyneee/accord (seems to be for M1 macs) https://github.com/ArmCord/ArmCord (seems to support AMD64, not just Arm64) https://github.com/khlam/discord-sandboxed (sandboxing for standard discord client) There are others I'm sure. One easier option is to run the Discord code in a newer version of Electron. This still isn't open source, but it provides better security and performance. Arch users can use the AUR package discord_arch_electron, other users can just follow the commands in the PKGBUILD for said package and figure it out. Hope that helps. Keep in mind even if your client is open source, Discord's servers aren't, and while there will be some mitigation of data collected, it'll still be quite a bit.

An alternative however to this is a WeeChat plugin. Once more, you will need to obtain a login token. You can either use a python script to find the tokens or try and grab them manually.