imsg-tui

A console TUI for sending and receiving iMessages using @steipete's imsg tool

Instalation

Easiest way to get things off the ground is intall on a Mac via homebrew (see https://github.com/steipete/homebrew-tap):

brew install steipete/tap/imsg

then

https://github.com/plotfi/imsg-tui
cd imsg-tui
python3 imsg-tui.py

You will need imsg to be in your path, or provide the path with --imsg-path

Lastly, you will need to give permissions so that imsg can have access to your messages. It will prompt for this; it is advised that you only give Terminal.app permissions and run this in tmux so that ssh-agent isnt able to directly have access.

Why?

1. I like to separate home and work without using separate devices, ssh happens to be a good way to do this.
2. I sometimes use Linux on my macbook; it's nice to have my chats available.
3. I don't really like the desktop experience for most chat alternatives, for example with with Discord I've started using Discordo (https://github.com/ayn2op/discordo)... I'll probably use steipete's wacli/signal-cli to make similar TUIs someday.