Installation

git clone https://github.com/bitriddler/messenger-cli
cd messenger-cli
npm install

Quick Start

1. Install messenger-cli
2. Copy .env-sample to .env and set
   • FB_EMAIL your login email
   • FB_PASSWORD your login password
   • NICK_NAMES comma separated nick names you go with in chats. This will be used to render "Me:" instead of your chat name.
3. Run npm start to start the server
4. Open another terminal and go to the messenger-cli directory to have access to the following commands:

Show visible users

Show a list of the last ~20 users you have chatted with.

npm run cli -- --command=visible-users

Start a chat with a user

This will show you a list of visible users then ask you to enter either the user id or the number of the user in the list

npm run cli -- --command=start-session

Get current chat messages

This will return the visible messages with the current user

npm run cli -- --command=get-session

Send a message to the current chat

This will send a message to the current chat

npm run cli -- --command=send-session "your message goes here"

Usual scenario goes like this

• Start chat with a user
• Send a message
• Get chat messages

npm run cli -- --command=start-session
# When prompted, enter user id or number of user in the list
npm run cli -- --command=send-message "your message"
npm run cli -- --command=get-session
...

Commands are too long?

Copy and paste this in your terminal

alias fv="npm run cli -- --command=visible-users"
alias fss="npm run cli -- --command=start-session"
alias fs="npm run cli -- --command=send-session"
alias fg="npm run cli -- --command=get-session"

Now you can run the above scenario as follows:

fss
# When prompted, enter user id or number of user in the list
fs your message in here
fg
...

Limitations

I created this repository just for fun and there are a lot of limitations you have to know:

• Only a few emojis will render, the rest will just show :unkown_emoji:
• Images or any other attachments are ignored