Signal-cli Alternatives

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• OpenClaw Signal Integration: Private AI Agent Messaging
  1 project | dev.to | 1 Apr 2026

  VERSION=$(curl -Ls -o /dev/null -w %{url_effective} https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/releases/latest | sed -e 's/^.*\/v//') curl -L -O "https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/releases/download/v${VERSION}/signal-cli-${VERSION}-Linux-native.tar.gz" sudo tar xf "signal-cli-${VERSION}-Linux-native.tar.gz" -C /opt sudo ln -sf /opt/signal-cli /usr/local/bin/ signal-cli --version

• Technical analysis of TM SGNL, the unofficial Signal app Trump officials use
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 May 2025

  While that's true even in the general case - through reverse engineering of binaries, it's especially true in the case of Signal because it's open source.

  There are libraries for interacting with Signal services (one from Signal themselves), here is a CLI tool that uses the lightly patched official library: <https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli>

• How Beeper Mini Works
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Dec 2023

  Not official but this works darn well: https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli

• Ask HN: What are some unpopular technologies you wish people knew more about?
  56 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Dec 2023
• Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive
  7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Nov 2023

  If you want one for just personal use; this works well: https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli

  Just sign up with a Twilio number (using voice call) and you can make your own bot.

• What is your go to notification service?
  2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 26 Mar 2023

  Here is my docker compose, maybe it is helpful: signal: #registerung tutorial # signal-cli --username +12345678 register --voice --captcha censored # https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/wiki/Registration-with-captcha # https://signalcaptchas.org/registration/generate.html IN CHROME # signal-cli -u +12345678 verify 123456 # signal-cli -u +1234567 send -m "This is a message" +12345678 #curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"message": "bliblob", "number": "+41824174983", "recipients": ["+21412430"]}' 'http://signal:8080/v2/send' #external testing image: bbernhard/signal-cli-rest-api:latest container_name: signal restart: unless-stopped hostname: signal networks: - monitoring volumes: - /docker/prometheus/signal/client:/root/.local/share/signal-cli - /docker/prometheus/signal/client:/home/.local/share/signal-cli labels: - com.centurylinklabs.watchtower.enable=true environment: - USE_NATIVE=0 signalweb: # curl -X POST localhost:9100/api/v2/alertmanager -d '{"alerts": [{"status": "firing","labels": {"alertname": "test"},"annotations": {"message": "Test alert."}}]}' image: registry.gitlab.com/schlauerlauer/alertmanager-webhook-signal:latest container_name: signalweb restart: unless-stopped hostname: signalweb networks: - monitoring volumes: - /docker/prometheus/signal/web/config.yml:/root/config.yaml labels: - com.centurylinklabs.watchtower.enable=true

• Is it possible to create Signal chat bot?
  2 projects | /r/signal | 12 Jan 2023
• VOIP software/app for Apple devices with calls &amp; sms?
  2 projects | /r/VOIP | 3 Jan 2023

  Yes, using the signal-cli program. It has a built in JSON RPC API that can be used to develop application integrations

• Signal-CLI and Desktop (no phone)
  1 project | /r/signal | 5 Nov 2022

  Last commit was 2 days ago so it should still work: https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli

• Read Android notifications and send corresponding mqtt messages.
  2 projects | /r/MQTT | 29 Oct 2022

  Sorry to hear. Then the cheap backup may be a Signal CLI forwarded over to mqtt CLI

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