Termux:API

- April 9, 2017

Everyone

( 486)

Description

The Termux:API add-on provides command line access to device API:s:

* Read and send sms messages from your terminal.
* Access device GPS location sensor from scripts.
* Pipe the result of commands into the device text-to-speech engine.
* Vibrate the device when something interesting happens.
* Access the system clipboard from shell scripts.
* List contacts from the system contact list.

Besides installing this app an additional package is required to install inside Termux:
$ apt install termux-api

See the following documentation about available API commands:
https://termux.com/add-on-api.html

NOTE: This is an add-on which requires that the main Termux app is installed to use.

Reviews

4.7

486 total

5 413

4 42

3 17

2 6

1 8

Sanket Kumar Singh

Well I'm using it from last few months and never faced any problems, but when I updated to this version (Dated 2017-Apr-10), my AV App reports following: "Termux API: contains malware which may put your privacy, security and financial accounts at risk, we strongly advise to uninstall it." Why is it reporting this, is it because of this new addition of termux-telephony-call or is it really something else. Please clarify. (Decreasing ratings based on the current situation and just to get your attention)

Lorentz Panadestein

Termux is probably my favorite Android app, I would spent some money in it because I think is totally awesome! But, I have been trying to fix this bug of Termux-api no output for a while and I couldn't find a proper solution in any place, and I tried a lot. Edit: Now it's working perfectly! Thanks a lot! Five starts for sure!

james santos

I spent some time creating Nodejs applications using termux api. So far I'm having a lot of fun automating tasks like reading sms and responding based on the message received.

AAHIL WASIM

Hey while installing package termux api it's not working and even its not installing just giving a popup unable to locate.

Ben Burrill

A good set of tools. Camera api is limited though, no way to cause/control a camera flash etc.

Plz tell me.do I need to root my phone? because I am unable to open this app.

User reviews

Sanket Kumar Singh April 9, 2017

Fredrik Fornwall April 15, 2017

It does not contain malware - Avast antivirus flags it as malware, probably due to the app requesting the permission to initiate phone calls (which it does to support the new termux-telephony-call utility, as you guessed). So the problem is on the side of Avast. The source code of the app is open source at https://github.com/termux/termux-api.

Lorentz Panadestein May 7, 2017

james santos May 28, 2017

I spent some time creating Nodejs applications using termux api. So far I'm having a lot of fun automating tasks like reading sms and responding based on the message received.

AAHIL WASIM May 6, 2017

Hey while installing package termux api it's not working and even its not installing just giving a popup unable to locate.

Ben Burrill April 30, 2017

A good set of tools. Camera api is limited though, no way to cause/control a camera flash etc.

June 7, 2017

Plz tell me.do I need to root my phone? because I am unable to open this app.

June 8, 2017

I can't serch that app in my menu. How can I access that ? Gave me some suggestions

Harold Chu April 9, 2017

ultimate solution, beats all

Dr Pandey June 15, 2017

The maker of this app pls tell me what it is used for ans for what porpous

The Meluminati June 11, 2017

LISTEN!!! YOU NEED TO TYPE APT UPGRADE BEFORE APT INSTALL TERMUX--API

RAVI kumar May 26, 2017

Termux is my favorite app for hacking

fadli m April 23, 2017

Hey,this is awesome!!

Saumyakanta Sahoo June 21, 2017

Awesome!

April 12, 2017

Termux is the greatest app on android bar none

陈进龙 April 6, 2017

It's quite useful!

csibesz07 April 10, 2017

very useful

Alex Scott March 23, 2017

Amazing! Mosquitto and Node-red in my pocket!

mohsen emaditaj April 2, 2017

I dont no have to use it I cant start it It dont have shortcut In googel play store dont have start too Plase help me

Shin Chan March 19, 2017

Please add api to send Broadcast. Such as sl4a.

imran the other January 14, 2017

Awesome This add-on is already providing plenty of useful api utilities. I hope these utilities shall be extended further to allow more control to us/users. For example, ability to delete spam sms, etc. Hopefully the toast and dialog utilities would mature into a more comprehensive gui-toolkit. Thanks and good luck.

avijeet tiwari January 22, 2017

At last it says unable to locate package termux-api! Plz help !!

Patrick-A. F. Agbokou February 16, 2017

Fred, you brought the android terminal emulator to a whole new level!

vick waichigo March 4, 2017

Awesome

Magnus Landqvist February 13, 2017

Nothing beats Termux

Karim Mahamane Karimou November 29, 2016

Upgrade to dumped 3.2.1 Broke MPV "mpv was compiled against a different version of FFmpeg/Libav than the shared library it is linked against. This is most likely a broken build and could result in misbehavior and crashes." mpv does not support this configuration and will not run - rebuild mpv instead. Exiting... (Fatal error)

Mohammad Bahathir Hashim September 28, 2016

Tips I composed a long text using text editor, such as Emacs. :), and copy the text into X Window system clipboard. To transfer/copy the content to phone, running sshd in Termux. I use a simple X program called x 'xsel' or, you can use old school 'cat' command. xsel | ssh -p 8022 your.phone.ip.address 'cat | termux-clipboard-set' or cat | ssh -p 8022 your.phone.ip.address 'cat | termux-clipboard-set' Paste the content using middle mouse button, and hit Ctrl-D. Now, you can paste it in aap's edit-box.

Simon Jeffree November 13, 2016

This is great. What would be really cool would be to be able to present a ListView from a bash shell array & allow scrolling & selecting an entry & possibly even checkboxing to select multiple items from the array.

Tom Hoppe November 22, 2016

Outstanding work! Is there currently any way to spawn a terminal session over Bluetooth/serial via getty?

Michael Pilgermann December 11, 2016

Great app., Amazingly easy to remotely (SSH) control mobile / tablet. Feature request: I am trying to use tablet as voice output for my home automation. TTS is doing this job well, however, TTS will only procedure when screen is unlocked. Any way to integrate unlocking in API? (it's not about security (PIN etc.)).

Stephan Wiesand December 2, 2016

Way to go Useful and easy to use (for those of us used to scripting). More of those pleeze!

Jian Wu Chen November 13, 2016

amazing hope to support more apis. and support a repository of community deveopered shell apps.

rimau trg December 2, 2016

Very useful Love it!

Christopher OLoughlin September 1, 2016

Should be first step after... Should be your first thing to install after doing Apt-get update. Provides shell access to Android clipboard, my favorite, and many more system info and interaction functions. Remember to Apt-get install termux-api on the shell too.

Mark O April 28, 2016

Works Nicely! I wish there were instructions that would appear within Termux once a person has installed this being that we have to look both in Playstore's READ area and in the referenced website for it, but still it does work eventually, and that's good!

Daniel Rode April 25, 2016

Power users dream I love this app, but please add support for Android 6.0+ permissions. Update: Awesome! Thank you so much!

Fredrik Fornwall April 25, 2016

Done! The app should now prompt for permissions when needed.

kevin mulholland May 5, 2016

The API feature is great, just need loads more features adding - I would be willing to pay for these. Set volume, wifi/bluetooth on/off etc

András Dőtsch July 1, 2016

need a feature Termux is great, but I am missing a feature. I want to launch an android app to open a file what I created in Termux.

Tyler Scott MacLeod June 24, 2016

it doesn't do anything after installing this it didn't add anything, I had to instead install it from the repo inside Termux. also, it'd be nice if it included an ncurses style client for SMS messaging using the API in the vein of mutt or vifm - that would make it basically the nerdiest/awesomest utility on the play store.