This is NOT an original piece of work, just a snap of matrix-commander

This program is a simple but convenient app to send and receive Matrix messages from the CLI in various different ways. Use cases for this program could be

• a bot or part of a bot,
• to send alerts,
• combine it with cron to publish periodic data,
• send yourself daily/weekly reminders via a cron job
• send yourself a daily song from your music collection
• a trivial way to fire off some instant messages from the command line
• to automate sending via programs and scripts
• a "blogger" who frequently sends messages and images to the same room(s) could use it
• a person could write a diary or run a gratitutde journal by sending messages to her/his own room
• as educational material that showcases the use of the matrix-nio SDK

Create an alias for ease of use (optional)

sudo snap alias matrix-commander-gael.matrix-commander matrix-commander

First-time users

Read https://github.com/8go/matrix-commander#examples-of-calling-matrix-commander

2025-03-12

• New build to resolve CVE-2024-9287/CVE-2024-12254/CVE-2025-0938/USN-7116-1/USN-7219-1/USN-7280-1

2024-09-17

• New build to resolve CVE-2024-6923/CVE-2024-6232/CVE-2024-8088/CVE-2023-27043/CVE-2024-7592/USN-7015-1

2024-09-14

• New build to resolve CVE-2024-6345/USN-7002-1

2024-09-04

• Improvements, up to v7.7.0
• Added new feature: --verify manual does a one-way setting of trust
• Added new feature: --verify emojireq initiates an emoji verification (instead of waiting for one)

2024-05-08

• Improvements, up to v7.6.2

• Using core24 to update the Python runtime

• Targeting Python v3.12 following https://github.com/8go/matrix-commander/issues/168

2024-03-31

• Improvements, up to v7.6.0
• Added feature "time" to --download-media-name
• Added new feature: --room-dm-create-allow-duplicates
• Added new feature: --joined-dm-rooms to list all joined DM rooms of current user

2023-10-11

• Improvements, up to v7.3.1

• New feature --download-media-name SOURCE|CLEAN|EVENTID

2023-09-13

• New build to resolve CVE-2022-48554/USN-6359-1

2023-06-06

• Improvements, up to v7.2.0

• Enhancement: feature --room-invites is now also available without --listen

• New build to resolve CVE-2023-24329/USN-6139-1

2023-04-19

• Improvements, up to v7.1.0

• New feature --room-invites LIST|JOIN|LIST+JOIN

2023-04-12

• Improvements, up to v7.0.0

• Support for emojize

2023-04-04

• Improvements, up to v6.0.2

• Fix for error when providing wrong password at login

2023-03-18

• New build to resolve CVE-2023-24329/USN-5960-1
• Dependencies cleanup

2023-03-17

• New build to resolve CVE-2023-24329/USN-5960-1

2023-03-01

• New build to resolve CVE-2022-40898/USN-5821-3

2023-01-24

• New build to resolve CVE-2022-40897/USN-5817-1

2022-12-28

• New build to switch to core22 as most of the users are on Ubuntu 22.04

• Improvements, up to v6.0.1

• Fix for opening web browser for SSO

2022-12-09

• New build to resolve CVE-2022-37454/CVE-2022-45061/USN-5767-1

2022-11-23

• Improvements, up to v5.0.0

• Added --sync off|full to allow turning sync off for send actions, default is --sync full

• Bug fix in --joined-members, added initial part of new feature --output

• -output is currently only implemented for 2 functions: --joined-members and --joined-rooms

• Added new option --get-room-info to get room alias, room display name, and much more

• Improved --room-get-info to allow also aliases instead of room id

• Added new option --get-client-info

• Added new type json-spec to --output

• Added new option --verbose

• Changes to --output, json-spec only provides output for --listen

• Added --output format logic also to --version

• 2 bug fixes: --room-create failed for empty aliasm --joined-members failed when avatar missing

• New feature: --plain now available for --room-create and --room-dm-create

• Improved error logging

2022-10-03

• Improvements, up to v3.5.1

• Minor bug fix for --tail