Command Line Interface for Signal

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  • signal-cli

    signal-cli provides an unofficial commandline, JSON-RPC and dbus interface for the Signal messenger.

  • signal-cli uses a clearly identifiable user agent [0] that could easily be blocked if Signal wanted to. signal-cli could escalate by trying to evade that kind of a block, but as it stands signal-cli has been operating without trouble for several years.

    I meant they may ask some clients not to use their servers, but they don't have any enforcement mechanism in place beyond asking them to stop on github.

    [0] https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/blob/05abb3f9f6294677d2d...

  • LibreSignal

    LibreSignal • The truly private and Google-Free messenger for Android.

  • You are looking for links to what moxie said and people's experiences of interacting with him.

    The links to LibreSignal (already mentioned here) and Wire stories summarize most of what I was pointing at: https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco... https://medium.com/@wireapp/axolotl-and-proteus-788519b186a7

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  • signal-cli-rest-api

    Dockerized Signal Messenger REST API

  • You could use a docker container. e.g https://github.com/bbernhard/signal-cli-rest-api

    (I am the author of REST API wrapper)

    But I agree with you on that...Java isn't my preferred language either.

  • presage

    A high-level Rust library to help write clients for the Signal Messenger.

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