Command Line Interface for Signal

A really useful tool for us folks who don&#x27;t use smartphones, been using it for the last 5 years to have Signal-desktop without a smartphone. Can&#x27;t thank the maintainer and contributors enough!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ctrl.alt.coop&#x2F;en&#x2F;post&#x2F;signal-without-a-smartphone&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ctrl.alt.coop&#x2F;en&#x2F;post&#x2F;signal-without-a-smartphone&#x2F;</a>

So... we&#x27;re gonna write code in python ...that interfaces with a CLI ...that&#x27;s a wrapper around a Java library ...that communicates with Signal&#x27;s API?<p>Would it not be better to write code in python that communicates directly with Signal&#x27;s API?

Didn&#x27;t Signal have some weird licence restriction saying that non-official clients are not allowed to connect to official servers?<p>How does this client bypass it? Can I use it to text a friend who uses the official servers?

This makes me really miss Keybase.io. Anyone around from Keybase? Will it just bit rot away or will it get some attention&#x2F;love in the future?

How does this compare with signald? I wrote a signald xmpp bridge, but signald can be a bit wonky. One time it just stopped responding, and it doesn&#x27;t pull in as much peer data as the official client.

&gt; at least Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 11<p>Yeah I stopped right there. I&#x27;ve had enough of one app wanting IBM Java, another wanting Oracle Java, another wanting Sun Java, another wanting 32-bit Java, another wanting 64-bit Java, another wanting Java 8, another wanting Java 11, ...<p>I really wish this were written in literally any other language, ideally one whose compiler can be apt-gotten on a default Ubuntu install.

It asks me to get a captcha on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;signalcaptchas.org&#x2F;registration&#x2F;generate.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;signalcaptchas.org&#x2F;registration&#x2F;generate.html</a>, but the site does not seem to work.

still missing some kind of ncurses UI for Signal now

I look forward to reviewing this. Neat idea.