dark-send 1.1.0

A Command Line Interface for Telegram

dark-send

Dark-send is a CLI telegram client written in python. It sends messages and files through your personal telegram account using a daemon that maintains a connection in the background, much like the stock telegram desktop app.

Dependencies

pip3 install -r requirements.txt 

Installation

Clone the repository to a local directory

git clone https://github.com/mindhuntr/dark-send 

For system wide installation

python3 setup.py install

For user specific installation

python3 setup.py install --user 

Configuration

dark-send requires a daemon process running in the background. The daemon can be initialized using a parameter

dark-send --daemonize

Once the config file is generated, it is more robust to create a systemd-unit file that automatically executes the daemon once the system is up

[Unit]
Description=Daemon for dark-send
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
User=YOUR_USER
ExecStart=/usr/bin/python3 -m dark_send.daemon
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5
StandardOutput=journal
StandardError=journal

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Create a file called dark-send.service with the above content and place it in "/etc/systemd/system". Replace "YOUR_USER" with your username and execute the following commands

systemctl daemon-reload 
systemctl enable dark-send.service
systemctl start dark-send.service

Usage

Display help:

dark-send --help 

To send a message:

dark-send Hello!

To send an image:

dark-send -i /path/to/image 

To send files as album:

dark-send -a -f /path/to/file /path/to/file 

To send a video directly without selecting from the chats list

dark-send -v /path/to/file -c "Alienists" 

You can also send messages or files to topics within a group