emm: Export Matrix Messages

A CLI tool that joins the room and exports last N messages to the file you specified.

Features

• Get messages from any matrix room with pagination (if limit greather than page, to prevent timeout errors) or without it (if limit less or equals page)
• Export messages to one file for all messages
• Export each message in separate file
• Custom templates supported (contrib contains an example of hugo post template, etke.cc/webite can be used as reference)
• Delegation and aliases supported
• Anyone/world_readable access supported without invite

Usage

Full example

That's how etke.cc/website news generated

emm -hs hs.url -u user -p pass -r "#room:hs.url" -t contrib/hugo-post-template.md -o /tmp/%s.md

Documentation

Usage of emm:
  -hs string
    	Homeserver URL (supports delegation)
  -l int
    	Messages limit
  -o string
    	Output filename. If it contains %s, it will be replaced with event ID (one message per file)
  -p string
    	Password of the matrix user
  -r string
    	Room ID or alias
  -t string
    	Template file. Default is JSON message struct
  -u string
    	Username/Login of the matrix user

How to get

• Releases for freebsd, linux and MacOS
• or go install gitlab.com/etke.cc/emm@latest / make install
• or from source code