This script allows you to send simple unencrypted message & html to matrix. It can be usefull for logging / cronjobs error or monitoring.

This script is dependent of jq & curl.

To install the script, just clone this repo:

git clone https://git.arka.rocks/Oxbian/matrix-sender

And if you want you can add it to the PATH or link it to the /bin folder.

sudo ln -s $(pwd)/matrix-sender /bin/matrix-sender

First you need to edit the script with your homeserver url & the roomID

After this you need to get your token

matrix-sender -t <username> <password>

Once all is setup, you can send messages:

• Simple message

matrix-sender -s {<room-id>} <message>

• or an HTML formatted message

matrix-sender -html {<room-id>} <message>

For help you can use:

matrix-sender -h

or

matrix-sender --help

Example

matrix-sender -s 'Hello world!'

matrix-sender -html '<h1 class="test"> t e s t </h1>'

If you want to contribute, make a pull request with your contribution.

This project is under the GPLv3 license, you can use it in your project but not in closed sources ones. Sharing project is what make the world live, think about it.