Command-line messaging for Facebook Messenger
Install messer globally with npm install messer -g, so you can use the command in any context.
Make sure you are running Node 4.x
If you want to log in with your credentials stored in a file, do the following - otherwise, you'll log in by typing in your credentials each time you run Messer
Create a config.json somewhere. Inside of the config.json, add
{
"email": "email",
"password": "password"
}
Fill in the email you use for Facebook, along with your Facebook password
If you stored your credentials in a json, simply type messer path/to/config.json, replacing path/to/config.json with the path to your config.json Otherwise, type messer and input your email and password as you are prompted for them. The password will not be visible as you type it in.
Once you're logged in, you'll see a REPL.
Currently, the only supported commands are message and reply
message "[user]" [message]
The quotes around the username are mandatory. An example might be message "Matthew" hello world!
When sending a message, Messer picks the closest match to what you type in as user. For this reason, you should probably use last names if you want to avoid accidentally texting someone.
reply [message]
This will reply to the last message you received. Note: this will only work if you have received at least one message through Messer.
- Track received messages from users, and give the user the ability to look at them with a command
- Make a Messenger-esque UI in the terminal
- Using
blessed - Make an option to use prettier UI vs plain text
- Using
- Be able to send to specific group chats
- Maybe something with
getThreadList- a list of recent conversations with indices, and be able to reply to a conversation by inputting its index
- Maybe something with
- Different colors for different chats?
- Giphy support - send random gif based on text user sends
facebook-chat-api@1.0.6 relies on a version of node which requires basic ES6 support - use facebook-chat-api@1.0.5 if you have an older version of node
Send a pull request! Check out the list of todos