A modern Telnet, WebSocket, and SSH client designed especially for BBSs and MUDs

• Session Manager For configuring and bookmarking connections, bundled with an up-to-date directory of over 1,700 MUDs and BBSs.
• Advanced Telnet Support for popular BBS and MUD Protocols
• WebSocket support for BBS and MUD websocket subprotocols, TELNETS (Telnet + SSL), and SSH protocols are also supported.
• MUD Features Easy-to-use TUI interface to create macros, triggers, highlights, room mapping, fast travel, random walk, autodiscover, progress bars, chat, and captures through a common Command interface, or advanced programming with asyncio Python Scripting.
• BBS/Scene Art support for CP437, PETSCII, ATASCII, iCE colors, by translation of ANSI color codes and legacy encodings to modern 24-bit color codes and terminal encoding (usually utf-8).

Built using Python libraries telnetlib3, blessed, textual, and wcwidth.

Requires Python 3.10+.

pip install telix 

Launch the Session Manager (TUI):

telix 

Connect directly to a host via Telnet:

# Using CLI, telix dunemud.net 6789 # with ssl, telix --ssl dunemud.net 6788 

Connect via SSH:

telix ssh://bbs.example.com telix ssh://user@bbs.example.com:2222 

Connect directly via WebSocket:

telix wss://xibalba.vip:44512 telix wss://dev.cryosphere.org:4443/telnet/ 

usage: telix [-h] [--always-do OPT] [--always-dont OPT] [--always-will OPT] [--always-wont OPT] [--ansi-keys] [--ascii-eol] [--compression] [--connect-maxwait N] [--connect-minwait N] [--connect-timeout N] [--encoding ENCODING] [--encoding-errors ENCODING_ERRORS] [--gmcp-modules MODULES] [--line-mode] [--logfile FILE] [--logfile-mode {append,rewrite}] [--loglevel LOGLEVEL] [--no-repl] [--raw-mode] [--send-environ VARS] [--shell SHELL] [--speed N] [--ssl] [--ssl-cafile PATH] [--ssl-no-verify] [--term TERM] [--typescript FILE] [--typescript-mode {append,rewrite}] [--key-file FILE] [--username USER] [--background-color COLOR] [--bbs] [--color-brightness N] [--color-contrast N] [--colormatch PALETTE] [--mud] [--no-ice-colors] Telnet, WebSocket, and SSH MUD/BBS client. telix host [port] -- Telnet telix telnet://host[:port] -- Telnet telix telnets://host[:port] -- Telnet with SSL telix ws://host[:port][/path] -- WebSocket telix wss://host[:port][/path] -- WebSocket with SSL telix ssh://[user@]host[:port] -- SSH options: -h, --help show this help message and exit Connection options: --always-do OPT always send DO for this option (comma-separated, named like GMCP) --always-dont OPT always send DONT for this option, refusing even natively supported --always-will OPT always send WILL for this option (comma-separated, named like MXP) --always-wont OPT always send WONT for this option, refusing even natively supported --ansi-keys transmit raw ANSI escape sequences for arrow/function keys --ascii-eol use ASCII CR/LF instead of encoding-native EOL --compression request MCCP compression --connect-maxwait N timeout for pending negotiation (default: 4.0) --connect-minwait N shell delay for negotiation (default: 0) --connect-timeout N timeout for connection in seconds (default: 10) --encoding ENCODING encoding name (default: utf-8) --encoding-errors ENCODING_ERRORS handler for encoding errors (default: replace) --gmcp-modules MODULES comma-separated list of GMCP modules to request --line-mode force line-mode input (default: auto-detect) --logfile FILE write log to FILE --logfile-mode {append,rewrite} log file write mode (default: append) --loglevel LOGLEVEL logging level (default: warn) --no-repl disable the interactive REPL (raw I/O only) --raw-mode force raw-mode input (default: auto-detect) --send-environ VARS comma-separated environment variables to send via NEW- ENVIRON --shell SHELL dotted path to shell coroutine --speed N terminal speed to report (default: 38400) --ssl enable SSL/TLS (telnet only) --ssl-cafile PATH CA bundle for SSL verification (telnet only) --ssl-no-verify disable SSL certificate verification (telnet only) --term TERM terminal type to negotiate (default: $TERM) --typescript FILE record session to FILE --typescript-mode {append,rewrite} typescript write mode (default: append) SSH options (ssh://[user@]host[:port] connections): --key-file FILE path to private key file --username USER login username (default: system login) Telix options: --background-color COLOR terminal background color as #RRGGBB (default: #000000) --bbs apply BBS connection presets --color-brightness N color brightness multiplier (default: 1.0) --color-contrast N color contrast multiplier (default: 1.0) --colormatch PALETTE color palette for remapping (default: vga, 'none' to disable) --mud apply MUD connection presets --no-ice-colors disable iCE color (blink as bright background) support 

Full documentation at https://telix.readthedocs.io/.