Sipgate CLI

This is a small hack to send faxes via the sipgate REST API from the command line.

Deployment

Install jq.

Add your login credentials to login_credentials_muster.sh and rename the file to .env

Since sipgate enforces 2FA, your usual username and password won't work anymore. Now, you need a so-called Personal Access Token, that you can retrieve after you login to the web interface. Enable at least the following scopes:

• balance:read
• devices:callerid:read
• devices:callerid:write
• history:read
• sessions:fax:write

Enter the token-ID as SIPUSER or TOKENID and the token as SIPPWD or TOKEN.

If you use Letterheads Address database, uncomment the last line of that file and add your/path/to/Letterhead

Usage

./fax.sh <letter.pdf> <recipient> with a german fax number <recipient>

./fax.sh <letter.pdf> -handle <handle> asks Letterhead's address database for 's fax number.

./fax.sh -help prints usage Message and exits

sipgate doesn't accept pdf files larger than 30 pages or 10MB.

For now, <recipient> has to be numbers-only, starting with +49. It is planned to parse different number formats. Should be done. Spaces in filename seem to make trouble at the moment - avoid them. Spaces in filenames are difficult. No guarantee, but should be handled now.

status.sh shows ID, Date and Status of the last ten fax set from this device.

balance.sh just gives your account balance.

faxreport.sh [options] [id] loads the report of a given fax id (as shown by status.sh). If no id ist given, it takes the last fax sent from this machine.

Options:

• -p to only print and not save the report
• -d to delete the given id from .fax_history

Recommendation

Put

alias fax="/your/path/to/this/project/fax.sh"
alias faxstatus="/your/path/to/this/project/status.sh"
alias faxbalance="/your/path/to/this/project/balance.sh"
# The following is obsolete, but for documentation/compatibility reasons:
fax-from-handle () { fax $1 "$(/your/path/to/this/project/Letterhead/Adressen/address.sh -f $2)"; }

into your .bashrc or .bash_aliases