spike-telegram 0.1.1

Telegram client in Ncurses, written in Python

Spike is a Telegram client with an Ncurses terminal user interface capable of handling text messages, currently in state of development.

Use

Launch the program with the spike-telegram command. To send a message, just select and enter the desired chat, type the message and press enter.

These are the keybindings:

Key	Action
Arrow up	Switch to upper chat
Arrow down	Switch to lower chat
Arrow right	Enter the selected chat
Arrow left	Leave current chat
Page up	Scroll up the dialog
Page down	Scroll down the dialog
Enter	Send message
Ctrl+q	Quit program

NOTE: if you experience any problems closing the program with Ctrl+q, executing stty -ixon before Spike might solve it.

Configuration

A configuration file will be created in ~your_user/.config/spikerc. There you can set your Telegram credentials and other options such us desktop notifications or privacy settings.

Installation

First of all, you must get an api_id and api_hash in https://my.telegram.org/. Go to ‘API development tools’ and fill out the form. Once you install Spike, write those keys in the configuration file, plus your phone number.

Arch Linux installation

• Clone this repository

• Go to distro-packages/archlinux/python-telegram. There you will find the PKGBUILD to install python-telegram, the main Spike dependency

• Install it with makepkg -csi --asdeps

• Go to ../spike-telegram

• Install Spike with makepkg -csi NOTE: This package has libnotify and python-emoji (AUR) as dependencies. If you wish to disable notifications or emoji support in the Spike configuration file, you can remove the dependencies from the PKGBUILD before installing it

• Run Spike to generate a template of the configuration file and fill it with your Telegram credentials and preferences

Gentoo Linux installation

• Clone this repository

• Go to distro-packages/gentoo

• Copy the dev-python and net-im folders to your local repository (You can find how to create one in https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Portage/CustomTree#Defining_a_custom_repository )

• Run emerge -pv spike-telegram and add the relevant keywords and use flags to your Portage configuration

• Install Spike with emerge -av spike-telegram

• Run Spike to generate a template of the configuration file and fill it with your Telegram credentials and preferences

Other distributions

• Install pip, the Python Package Manager

• Install Spike with pip install spike-telegram

• Run Spike to generate a template of the configuration file and fill it with your Telegram credentials and preferences