iMessageModule

Node iMessage Module

What is this?

This is a node module that allows you to send iMessages, assuming you are running on a Mac that's signed in to an iMessage account.

How do I use it in my project?

Like this:

var imessagemodule = require("iMessageModule");

imessagemodule.sendMessage("recipient email, phone, or chat title", "message text", function(err) {});

It's really that simple!

What's the purpose?

Nothing else on npm seems to deal with group chats correctly. I wanted something to use in my own project that I believed worked reliably and as quickly as possible. This uses a combination of private OS X frameworks in MessagesKit that I figured out while working on nodeprivatemessageskit and AppleScript files to send messages. Should work with OS X 10.7 or better.

Why doesn't this handle reading the database?

There's already a pretty good library for that on npm at imessage but personally I just read the Messages SQLite database directly in my other projects at imessageclient, iMessageWebClient, and imessagebot.