manymessage

Hi! This is a simple program that sends a message to many people all at once. (Or at least in very, very quick succession.)

You can install with RubyGems or Homebrew!

For Homebrew:

brew install jltml/tap/manymessage

For RubyGems:

gem install manymessage

Here's an example:

manymessage --to input_names.txt --message message.txt

input_names.txt (or whatever you name the file) should be a plain-text list of names, like First Last, with a name on each line. Manymessage will download and run contacts-cli to get all your contacts, then will filter them according to the names in the aforementioned text file before pairing each name with that person's phone number. Then, it uses the imessage gem to send your message to each person, which in turn actually uses AppleScript.

message.txt is… surprise, the message you'd like to send (it also doesn't have to be named message.txt)

Note: all of the stuff below is from the default README generated by Bundler, so it wasn't written by me, but all of it is applicable!

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and the created tag, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/jltml/manymessage.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.