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A command-line interface for Facebook Messenger.

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# Messenger-CLI

Messenger-CLI (MCLI) provides a way to access Facebook Messenger from the command line. You can send and receive messages with notifications in both group chats and direct messages.

It was written using [Node.js](https://nodejs.org) and [Facebook Chat API](https://github.com/Schmavery/facebook-chat-api).

## Installation
Clone this repo and run `npm install`. When the installation is complete, run `npm start` in the directory – you will be guided through logging into Messenger from there. If you enter the wrong email or password, you can delete `credentials.js` to start the sign-in process again.

Once you have a successful login, it will be cached in a file called `appstate.json`, which is the default sign-in method. If this login expires, you may get cryptic errors when you try to start MCLI. If this happens, simply delete `appstate.json` and you will be logged in again using the credentials stored in `credentials.js` the next time you run the utility.

## Usage

> ### **Note**
> This is not an official tool, and does not Facebook's official API for Messenger, as the functionality it replicates (emulating a user account) would not be possible with it. While steps are taken to reduce the possibility of this, your account may be temporarily or permanently locked for suspicious activity by Facebook, so use at your own risk.

When your account receives new messages, they will appear onscreen (sent to stdout from wherever you are running the CLI). You can write new messages directly to stdin.

For the first message you send, you will have to explicitly specify the recipient like this:

```
> Recipient: message to send
```

MCLI will search your 20 most recent threads (configurable) for a chat name (for group chats) or a person's name (for one-on-one chats) that matches `Recipient`. After the first message is sent, you can simply continue to type new messages and they will be sent to the last recipient specified.

To send a message to someone else, simply specify a new recipient using the same syntax shown above.

Alternatively, you can use `load: {recipient}` to load the latest 10 messages from the matching chat.

## Special commands
Below are a list of commands that, when included in messages, will not appear in the final text sent to the recipient, but will influence the behavior of the chat in some way.

|       **Command**       |                                                    **Description**                                                    |
|:-----------------------:|:---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------:|
| `{read}`                | This command will send a read receipt to the recipient thread, marking that you've read its latest message.           |
| `{emoji}`               | Wherever this command appears in the text, it will be replaced by the emoji for the recipient thread (👍 by default). |
| `{bigemoji}`            | This command will send a large version of the group emoji to the chat.                                                |
| `{file\|/path/to/file}` | This command will send the file located at the absolute path `/path/to/file`.                                         |

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