python_cffi

Python (CFFI)

There are alternative options available:

using the newer jsonrpc based bindings

frameworks:

• using deltabot (bot framework, includes features as chat command parsing)
• using simplebot (simplebot is a maintained fork of deltabot with many plugins availible)

Installation

# Optional create virtualenv
pip3 install virtualenv
virtualenv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip3 install -U pip wheel

# install deltachat
pip3 install deltachat

If it doesn't work (for example because you are not on linux), see https://py.delta.chat/cffi/install.html#installing-bindings-from-source for instructions on how to install it from source.

Usage

python echo_bot.py /tmp/db --email ADDRESS --password PASSWORD

References

• all available hooks can be found in https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-core-rust/blob/master/python/src/deltachat/hookspec.py
• Python bindings documentation https://py.delta.chat
• https://py.delta.chat/cffi/examples.html
• source code of python bindings https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-core-rust/tree/master/python