signal-cli

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  "github_readme_excerpt": "# signal-cli\n\nsignal-cli is a commandline interface for the [Signal messenger](https://signal.org/).\nIt supports registering, verifying, sending and receiving messages.\nsignal-cli uses a [patched libsignal-service-java](https://github.com/Turasa/libsignal-service-java),\nextracted from the [Signal-Android source code](https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/tree/main/libsignal-service).\nFor registering you need a phone number where you can receive SMS or incoming calls.\n\nsignal-cli is primarily intended to be used on servers to notify admins of important events.\nFor this use-case, it has a daemon mode with JSON-RPC interface ([man page](https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/blob/master/man/signal-cli-jsonrpc.5.adoc))\nand D-BUS interface ([man page](https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/blob/master/man/signal-cli-dbus.5.adoc)).\nFor the JSON-RPC interface there\u0027s also a simple [example client](https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/tree/master/client), written in Rust.\n\nsignal-cli needs to be kept up-to-date to keep up with Signal-Server changes.\nThe official Signal clients expire after three months and then the Signal-Server can make incompatible changes.\nSo signal-cli releases older than three months may not work correctly.\n\n## Installation\n\nYou can [build signal-cli](#building) yourself or use\nthe [provided binary files](https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/releases/latest), which should work on Linux, macOS and\nWindows. There\u0027s also a [docker image and some Linux packages](https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/wiki/Binary-distributions) provided by the community.\n\nSystem requirements:\n\n- at least Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 25\n- native library: libsignal-client\n\n  The native libs are bundled for x86_64 Linux (with recent enough glibc), Windows and MacOS. For other\n  systems/architectures\n  see: [Provide native lib for libsignal](https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/wiki/Provide-native-lib-for-libsignal)\n\n### Install system-wide on Linux [ JVM build ]\n\nSee [latest versi",
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