Telegram CLI Arguments
Lukas Rose edited this page Aug 15, 2015
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The Telegram CLI-client offers various arguments to be passed at execution. This is basically a list that can be retrieved by executing telegram-cli -h.
The following arguments are available:
--phone/-u specify username (would not be asked during authorization)
--rsa-key/-k specify location of public key (possible multiple entries)
--verbosity/-v increase verbosity (0-ERROR 1-WARNIN 2-NOTICE 3+-DEBUG-levels)
--enable-msg-id/-N message num mode
--config/-c config file name
--profile/-p use specified profile
--log-level/-l log level
--sync-from-start/-f during authorization fetch all messages since registration
--disable-auto-accept/-E disable auto accept of encrypted chats
--lua-script/-s lua script file
--wait-dialog-list/-W send dialog_list query and wait for answer before reading input
--disable-colors/-C disable color output
--disable-readline/-R disable readline
--daemonize/-d daemon mode
--logname/-L <log-name> log file name
--username/-U <user-name> change uid after start
--groupname/-G <group-name> change gid after start
--disable-output/-D disable output
--tcp-port/-P <port> port to listen for input commands
--udp-socket/-S <socket-name> unix socket to create
--exec/-e <commands> make commands end exit
--disable-names/-I use user and chat IDs in updates instead of names
--enable-ipv6/-6 use ipv6 (may be unstable)
--help/-h prints this help
--accept-any-tcp accepts tcp connections from any src (only loopback by default)
--disable-link-preview disables server-side previews to links
--bot/-b bot mode
--json prints answers and values in json format
--python-script/-Z <script-name> python script file