qlic

qlic is an unecessarily fast cli frontend to the venereal Zoho cliq. It is cliq but unopinionated.

Note	This project follows 'README driven development', so some of what is said in 'What Works' section actually doesn’t work. I will add a CHANGELOG in the future with proper versioning.

Why?

I would rather use the comfy terminal than a web browser for my computing needs. Zoho cliq was my only reason for opening a tab in browser. Not anymore.

TODO

• Make qlic interactive/usable by making it filesystem based like https://git.suckless.org/ii/file/README.html.

Usage

Setup

For qlic to work, you need client id and secret which can be obtained from https://api-console.zoho.com/ and should be substituted in $XDG_DATA_HOME/qlic/config.json

{
	"client_id": "<zoho_client_id>",
	"client_secret": "<zoho_client_secret>"
}

qlic -a should be runned for the first time to authenticate the application.

You need to get chat_id of the user of whom you want to send or recieve messages. You can get chat_id using the contacts API.

Sending a text

qlic -s "Hey! qlic is cliq" chat_id
echo "Pipes are awesome!" | qlic -s - chat_id

Sending an attachment

qlic -b image.jpg chat_id

Receive chat from multiple users

qlic -r chat_id [clientid...]

What works

• Authentication via OAuth

• Receive and send text to chat, channels

• Receive and send attachments to chat, channels

What doesn’t work

• Cliq call - Cliq doesn’t provide any API to for this feature.

Install

git clone https://github.com/bharatvaj/qlic
cd qlic
make install

Dependencies

• libcurl

• bharatvaj/OAuth2

• zserge/jsmn

Note	qlic will save it’s state file under ~/.cache/. Make sure the directory is available.

qlic on windows

Due to curl not compiling with MSVC. qlic will be a mingw app as curl is available as mingw. Make sure to compile qlic statically as the users might need to run it without any additional runtime.