Libervia CLI

Libervia CLI is the Command Line Interface of Libervia

libervia-cli is the command to launch it.

li is short alias for libervia-cli, it is the command used through this documentation.

Overview

li is a powerful tool to work with Libervia/XMPP. With it you can send chat messages, share files, retrieve avatars, write blog entries, etc.

Usage

To get help on commands or their options, use:

$ li --help

which can be used on any command, so if you need help on message send command, just do:

$ li message send --help

With li, you always enter commands first, then options and arguments.

There are several levels of commands: first one is the main category (message, blog, avatar, etc.), then there are often subcommands (e.g. message send).

After the commands come the options. For instance if you want to send a message, you can get the available options with --help as explained above:

$ li message send --help
usage: li message send [-h] [-p PROFILE] [--pwd PASSWORD] [-c] [-l LANG] [-s]
                       [-n] [-S SUBJECT] [-L SUBJECT_LANG]
                       [-t {chat,error,groupchat,headline,normal,auto}]
                       [-e ALGORITHM] [--encrypt-noreplace] [-x | -r]
                       jid

positional arguments:
  jid                   the destination jid

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -p PROFILE, --profile PROFILE
                        Use PROFILE profile key (default: @DEFAULT@)
  --pwd PASSWORD        Password used to connect profile, if necessary
  -c, --connect         Connect the profile before doing anything else
  -l LANG, --lang LANG  language of the message
  -s, --separate        separate xmpp messages: send one message per line
                        instead of one message alone.
  -n, --new-line        add a new line at the beginning of the input (usefull
                        for ascii art ;))
  -S SUBJECT, --subject SUBJECT
                        subject of the message
  -L SUBJECT_LANG, --subject_lang SUBJECT_LANG
                        language of subject
  -t {chat,error,groupchat,headline,normal,auto}, --type {chat,error,groupchat,headline,normal,auto}
                        type of the message
  -e ALGORITHM, --encrypt ALGORITHM
                        encrypt message using given algorithm
  --encrypt-noreplace   don't replace encryption algorithm if an other one is
                        already used
  -x, --xhtml           XHTML body

If you want to send a message to, say, pierre@example.net, and encrypt it with OMEMO, just do the following:

echo "hi, I'm writing with li" | li message send -e omemo pierre@example.net

(note that with OMEMO, you need to have previously validated fingerprint of your contact for this to work).

The different commands are explained in dedicated sections.

li commands:

Tutorial

You can check this third party tutorial: https://blog.agayon.be/sat_jp.html