WeeChat VS tg

WeeChat[0] with Bitlbee[1] supports a metric assload of services, albeit by pretending they're IRC (which does work - I spent years in weechat/irssi with bitlbee talking to various people on disparate services.) Or if you're just after Telegram/WhatsApp, nchat[2] is ok (I can vouch for the Telegram half only.) [0] https://weechat.org [1] https://wiki.bitlbee.org [2] - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

And UnrealIRCD still rocks. For a quick-and-dirty setup I've deploy ng-ircd but Unreal has always been my go-to for anything serious. If nothing else it can be useful as a backup or internal platform during the rare events that Slack or Discord are having an incident. The common complaint is a lack of channel back-log but it can be front-ended with TheLounge [1] or Convos [2]. I personally prefer to handle... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

With this particular linked page, it's just the change log. The actual website is at https://weechat.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

The link posted was to the dev blog, the actual website can be found at [0]. On the blog, the right side menu under "Links" also links to the website. [0] - https://weechat.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

I’m afraid you’re in the wrong subreddit. This subreddit is dedicated to WeeChat the IRC client., not the proprietary messaging app built by Tencent. Source: about 1 year ago

Hmm I had some experience with Telegram bots. So if the case is that you just need the notification about new message to the stdout of the command line, I would suggest Telethon library. It acts as usual client, therefore it's not a bot and you don't have to register it at BotFather. Yet you'll have to create an application for https://my.telegram.org/apps and get credentials from there. Also check out unofficial... Source: over 1 year ago

Check this out then https://github.com/vysheng/tg. Source: over 2 years ago

Fair enough, that seems to be the best course of action. From the Telegram website they list this unofficial CLI app, guaranteed this one won't take any GPU resources. Source: over 2 years ago

I tried a couple of those projects (to even somehow script them to make it automatic/daily) but no use. There is https://github.com/vysheng/tg which I was able to use to connect to telegram but trying to use https://github.com/tvdstaaij/telegram-history-dump/ failed with exception (mostly because of Ruby). Source: almost 3 years ago

In this case, we are lucky. We have a well-supported CLI application, telegram-cli. To try this, after installing, run:. - Source: dev.to / about 3 years ago