tn-cli

Command Line Client for Tinode

This is a command line chat client. It's written in Python as a demonstration of Tinode gRPC API.

Python 2.7 or 3.4 or newer is required. PIP 9.0.1 or newer is required. If you are using Python 2.7 install futures:

$ python -m pip install futures

Install tinode gRPC bindings:

$ python -m pip install tinode_grpc

Run the client from the command line:

python tn-cli.py --login-basic=alice:alice123

The client takes optional parameters:

• --host is the address of the server to connect to.
• --login-basic is the login:password to be authenticated with.
• --login-token is the token to be authenticated with.
• --login-cookie direct the client to read the token from the cookie file generated during an earlier login.

If multiple login-XYZ are provided, login-cookie is considered first, then login-token then login-basic. Authentication with token (and cookie) is much faster than with the username-password pair.