termchat

Chat through the terminal with hack.chat

usage: termchat [-h] [-r ROOM] [-n NICK] [-v]

Chat through the terminal with hack.chat

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -r ROOM, --room ROOM  Choose the name of the chatroom to enter
  -n NICK, --nick NICK  Set the username for others to see
  -v, --version         Display the current version of tchat

pip3 install termchat

There are a few things that is awesome about this project and hack.chat in general the first is they are both open source!

• Open source is love.

• hack.chat already never holds onto these chats unlike other services such as Skype as soon as all parties leave the chat all chat history is never again obtainable

• No one needs to sign up for an account, which is always a plus!

• Can be used from the terminal, so no web browser is necessary!

• By utilizing a client to interact with hack.chat we can add things like encryption (soon to come)

• Python and the curses interface go together like two peas in a pod

• Python 3
• websocket-client

• Add end to end encryption
• Check for an active connection status before starting the application
• Check if message went through and the ip hasn't been rate limited
• If user has left add a message to the chat from System with this info

Without the hack.chat project by AndrewBelt deployed here this project would have been a lot more complicated as most of the heavy lifting is done by it.

The Hchat.py file was largely based on this project by gkbrk which was modified so that it could be used without the need for a bot.

The interface in this project was largely based on this project by mathiasbc which was modified to integrate with the hackchat library rather than the slack client.

If this project helped you in any way and you feel like supporting me

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2017 Alex Epstein

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