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0.1.0 | Nov 7, 2019 |
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Keybase comes in a few flavors: as a command-line tool, a browser extension, and as a "standalone" Electron application. Chances are you are using the latter of these if you have a nice GUI for your keybase chats. However, there are a few reasons why you may not want to install the Electron version. First, it comes with a full bundled browser (which may also be outdated). Second, it's a pretty heavy-weight solution if you just want to keep on top of messages. And finally, it requires that you keep another application running on your desktop, which can get messy quickly. How many chat applications do you have running already?
This application aims to provide you with another lightweight
alternative. It uses the keybase chat api-listen
command to watch for
incoming messages, massages and filters them a bit, and then sends them
to your favorite operating system notification daemon for display. How
you then choose to view the messages is up to you. Personally, I'll then
just use the command-line keybase chat
command, but whatever floats
your boat.
To install the tool, make sure you have a somewhat recent Rust compiler
installed and ~/.cargo/bin
in your $PATH
. Then run:
$ cargo install keybase-chat-notifier
$ keybase chat api-listen | keybase-chat-notifier
If you want a local checkout instead, run:
$ git clone https://github.com/jonhoo/keybase-chat-notifier.git
$ cd keybase-chat-notifier
$ keybase chat api-listen | cargo run
Customization
Very limited at the moment. The appearance of the notifications is
mostly controlled by whatever your notification system does. You can use
--icon
to choose which icon is used for the notifications (macOS
probably ignores that though). You can also use --me
to set which
username "you" are considered to have for the purposes of filtering out
your own messages (if not set, the tool uses keybase status
).
The notifications on my machine look like this:
Happy to review PRs for additional features should you think of one you wish to see.
Dependencies
~4–29MB
~421K SLoC