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Details for telegram-cli

License

  • GPL-2.0

Last updated

  • 8 December 2020 - latest/stable
  • 8 December 2020 - latest/beta

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Command-line interface for Telegram. Uses the readline interface.

Telegram-cli is a command-line interface for Telegram, using the Telegram API and libopenssl for encryption. Type help to list all commands, the app comes with exhaustive tab-completion. Source code available at https://github.com/vysheng/tg


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