Start a Jitsi meeting quickly with meet. It creates a
meeting with a secure ID and prints the meeting URL to stdout. It can style,
open, copy, and send the URL for your convenience. No registration required, no
data collected.
meet has no required runtime dependencies.
Jitsi requires a browser like Firefox, the Jitsi Desktop app, or a telephone to join a meeting.
Optional dependencies add more features:
xselto copy URL to clipboardxdg-opento open the URL in your browserkeybaseto send the URL to a friend
$ meet
https://meet.jit.si/A8ul9DAc/Meeting
$ meet -c hack on meet
https://meet.jit.si/iN9SYLvP/HackOnMeet
🚀 copied to clipboard!Meet works without any configuration files. Optionally, you can initialize to change defaults:
$ meet --init
Base url (meet.jit.si): my-jitsi-server.local
Add random letters to URL for security? (Y/n): n
📝 wrote config to /home/user/.config/meet/settings.yml
$ ./meet hack on meet
https://my-jitsi-server.local/HackOnMeetMeet respects the XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable if it's set.
| feature | short | long | description |
|---|---|---|---|
| settings | --init |
initialize meet settings | |
-u URL |
--use URL |
use URL for this meeting | |
-i |
--insecure |
omit secure random portion of URL | |
--secure |
always include secure random portion | ||
| style | -s |
--snake |
use snake_case for meeting title |
-d |
--dash |
use dashes for meeting title | |
-t |
--title |
use TitleCase for meeting title (default) | |
-S |
--shout |
use SHOUT👏️CASE🗯️ for meeting title | |
-3 |
--heart |
use ❣️heart❤️style❣️ for meeting title | |
-j TEXT |
--emoji=TEXT |
put TEXT between words of meeting title |
|
| open | -o |
--open |
open url in your browser after a short pause |
-O |
--open-immediate |
open url in your browser immediately | |
| copy | -c |
--copy |
copy url to clipboard using xsel |
| send | -k USER |
--send-kb=USER |
send url to USER on Keybase |
Go to releases and download the latest archive. Then unpack it somewhere on your PATH, such as:
$ cd ~/Downloads
$ tar xzf meet-1.2.0.tgz
$ sudo install meet /usr/local/bin/meetTo install meet from source, you will need these dependencies:
- git
- make
- crystal
- coreutils
- readline
Crystal has these transitive dependencies: gcc, pkg-config, libpcre3-dev,
libevent-dev.
Follow these steps to install:
$ git clone https://github.com/ryanprior/meet.git
$ cd meet
$ make
$ sudo make install