patrix is a simple command line client for [Matrix ](https://matrix.org ) written in perl. It can create rooms, send text messages or files to rooms. I use it to send [Zabbix ](https://www.zabbix.com ) alerts to a Matrix room, a bit like [sendxmpp ](https://github.com/lhost/sendxmpp ) can do with XMPP.
It requires the following perl modules
* LWP::UserAgent
* HTTP::Request
* Config::Simple
* File::HomeDir
* File::Basename
* File::MimeInfo
* Path::Tiny
* Getopt::Long
* URI::Escape
* JSON
* Term::ReadKey
For now it's very limited, and can only send text messages and files to a room. Here're the vailable options:
* --user: specify the user you want to login as
* --password: the password to auth against the HS
* --server: the HS you want to connect to. Default is https://matrix.org
* --access_token: can be used instead of --user and --password
* --room: the room to which the message must be sent. Can be a room ID or a room alias
* --message: the text message you want to send. If you send something on stdin, it's assumed to be the text to send and this option is ignored
* --debug: if present, will be verbose
* --conf: path to a conf file. Default conf file is ~/.patrixrc
* --file: if action is send-file, specify the path of the file to send
* --invite: a matrix ID (@user:server.domain.tld) to invite in a room. Can be specified several times. Valid for create-room and modify-room
* --name: set the name of a room. Valid for create-room and modify-room
* --topic: set the topic of a room. Valid for create-room and modify-room
* --alias: set an alias for a room. Valid for create-room and modify-room
* --join_rules: change joining rules. Can be either public (anyone can join the room) or invite (you must be invited to join the room)
* --federation: Enable the federation when creating a room. Default is enabled. Can be turned of with --no-federation
* --action: what to do. Valid actions are
* send-msg (default): send the text message
* send-message: an alias for send-msg
* send-notice: send a notice. Very similar to send-msg but the client may display it differently. Eg Riot will not notify you for notices
* send-file: send a binary file. --file must be set
* create-room: create a new room
* modify-room: change an existing room (add an alias, set name, topic, join_rules, invite)
* get-access-token: just login and print the access token
* get-room-list: prints the list of public rooms of this server
All the available options can be set a the configuration file using a simple ini style format, eg
```
user=alert
password=p@ssw0rd
room=!BWdARvAgNQGgSjgtAG:matrix.domain.com
```
Options given on the command line take precedence over the config file
Examples:
```
cat /var/log/boot.log | patrix --room='#bootlogs:matrix.domain.com' --action=send-notice
```
```
patrix --action=send-file --file=/home/dani/archive.tgz --user=dani --password=secret --server=matrix.domain.com
```
```
patrix --debug --message="Hello World"
```
```
patrix --action=create-room --name="Human readable room name" --invite="@dani:matrix.example.com"
```
```
patrix --action=modify-room --join_rules=public --topic='New topic' --room='!uXfknaWNcAnvthnIms:matrix.example.com' --invite='@admin:matrix.example.com'
```
