Messaging

• msg <peer> Text – sends message to this peer
• fwd <user> <msg-seqno> – forward message to user. You can see message numbers starting client with -N
• chat_with_peer <peer> starts one on one chat session with this peer. /exit or /quit to end this mode.
• add_contact <phone-number> <first-name> <last-name> – tries to add contact to contact-list by phone
• rename_contact <user> <first-name> <last-name> – tries to rename contact. If you have another device it will be a fight
• mark_read <peer> – mark read all received messages with peer
• delete_msg <msg-seqno> – deletes message (not completly, though)
• restore_msg <msg-seqno> – restores delete message. Impossible for secret chats. Only possible short time (one hour, I think) after deletion

Multimedia

• send_photo <peer> <photo-file-name> – sends photo to peer
• send_video <peer> <video-file-name> – sends video to peer
• send_text <peer> <text-file-name> – sends text file as plain messages
• load_photo/load_video/load_video_thumb/load_audio/load_document/load_document_thumb <msg-seqno> – loads photo/video/audio/document to download dir
• view_photo/view_video/view_video_thumb/view_audio/view_document/view_document_thumb <msg-seqno> – loads photo/video to download dir and starts system default viewer
• fwd_media <msg-seqno> send media in your message. Use this to prevent sharing info about author of media (though, it is possible to determine user_id from media itself, it is not possible get access_hash of this user)
• set_profile_photo <photo-file-name> – sets userpic. Photo should be square, or server will cut biggest central square part

Group chat options

• chat_info <chat> – prints info about chat
• chat_add_user <chat> <user> – add user to chat
• chat_del_user <chat> <user> – remove user from chat
• rename_chat <chat> <new-name>
• create_group_chat <chat topic> <user1> <user2> <user3> … – creates a groupchat with users, use chat_add_user to add more users
• chat_set_photo <chat> <photo-file-name> – sets group chat photo. Same limits as for profile photos.

Search

• search <peer> pattern – searches pattern in messages with peer
• global_search pattern – searches pattern in all messages

Secret chat

• create_secret_chat <user> – creates secret chat with this user
• visualize_key <secret_chat> – prints visualization of encryption key. You should compare it to your partner’s one
• set_ttl <secret_chat> <ttl> – sets ttl to secret chat. Though client does ignore it, client on other end can make use of it
• accept_secret_chat <secret_chat> – manually accept secret chat (only useful when starting with -E key)

Stats and various info

• user_info <user> – prints info about user
• history <peer> [limit] – prints history (and marks it as read). Default limit = 40
• dialog_list – prints info about your dialogs
• contact_list – prints info about users in your contact list
• suggested_contacts – print info about contacts, you have max common friends
• stats – just for debugging
• show_license – prints contents of GPLv2
• help – prints this help

Card

• export_card – print your ‘card’ that anyone can later use to import your contact
• import_card <card> – gets user by card. You can write messages to him after that.

Other

• quit – quit
• safe_quit – wait for all queries to end then quit