Lusid

If you have the following:

• Macbook
• Python

You can programatically control iMessage, here's how

Quickstart

1. Install the dependency

$ pip install lusid
$ # Or pipenv install lusid...

2. Create a "client" to repeatedly read your inbox (the rest of this quickstart assumes you're writing to a file named app.py but feel free to replace that later on with whatever you named your to)

# app.py

from lusid import create_simple_message_reader

def start_client():
  create_simple_message_reader(
    message_handler=lambda to, body: None
  )

if __name__ == "__main__":
  start_client()

3. Define a function for handling messages:

# Snippet

def handle_message(from, body, send_message):
  print(f"Handling the message [{body}] from [{from}]")
  send_message(from, "Some funny autoreply here")

Similar to a "response" variable in web handlers, the send_message parameter provides a method to send a message

3. Next we're going to include the function we defined earlier

# app.py

from lusid import create_simple_message_reader

+def handle_message(from, body, send_message):
+  print(f"Handling the message [{body}] from [{from}]")
+  send_message(from, "Some funny autoreply here")

def start_client():
  create_simple_message_reader(
    message_handler=lambda to, body: None
  )

if __name__ == "__main__":
  start_client()

Then actually use it as our message handler

# app.py

from lusid import create_simple_message_reader

def handle_message(from, body, send_message):
  print(f"Handling the message [{body}] from [{from}]")
  send_message(from, "Some funny autoreply here")

def start_client():
  create_simple_message_reader(
-    message_handler=lambda to, body: None
+    message_handler=handle_message
  )

if __name__ == "__main__":
  start_client()

4. Now your script is set up to automatically reply to every received message with "Some funny autoreply here"

$ python app.py
Some terminal output indicating it's running...

Additional methods

Architecture

If you're wondering how this works under the hood there are two components:

1. Reading messages
2. Sending messages