Apple has APIs for iMessage: https://register.apple.com/messages You can even build a REST endpoint for Apple to invoke when your business receives a message from a user: https://register.apple.com/resources/messages/msp-rest-api/messages-received#incoming-messages Where's the playing dirty and undermining businesses part? - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

No, we're not talking about messaging apps in my comment tree. We're explicitly (without your dishonest "rather") talking about the design of OSes in consumer-facing hardware, and whether or not a messaging app comes with that is moot. Discussing hypothetical OSes matters, and always when it comes to regulation, because you don't want to recklessly regulate new entrants out of the market. Or do you just... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

iMessage for Business. https://register.apple.com/messages. Source: over 1 year ago

Because Apple already opened the messages gateway with Apple Business Register, it’s now possible to be a verified sender (over messages). Here. Source: almost 2 years ago

If you don't mind terminal clients, irssi is still regularly updated (most recent version was released in March of this year). It's available with homebrew. Source: 11 months ago

I found Irssi which apperantly has the capability to do this but the configuration is more complex than I hoped. While my experiments haven't concluded yet, is anybody aware of an easy to use IRC client that I can use to crawl the messages in an IRC channel? Source: about 2 years ago

Eggdrop [0] and BitchX [1] come to mind. Irssi [2] has a plugin that enables Tcl scripting. I'm currently fiddling with TkCAD [3] in order to put a small CNC machine to use here, it needs some small adaptations to work on Linux, but I find it a nice find! [0] https://eggheads.org/ [1] http://bitchx.sourceforge.net/ [2] https://irssi.org/ [3] https://github.com/revarbat/TkCAD. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

I've used irssi (https://irssi.org) for years. Have a session running on a shell host under tmux. Works perfectly for me on a desktop and a mobile ssh client. - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago

You might mean IRC chat room. Irssi is very popular IRC client. Source: about 3 years ago