A simple twitter command line client
Project description
ptwit is a simple command-line-based twitter client.
Requirements
A twitter account.
A twitter application registered at https://dev.twitter.com/apps
Installation
To install ptwit, simply:
pip install ptwit
The first time you issue a ptwit command will prompt to input a consumer key and a consumer secret, both of which can be obtained from your registered application at https://dev.twitter.com/apps
Usage
Login:
ptwit login
This command will open a twitter authentication page asking for your permission, and then presenting a 7-digit pincode if you permit it. Feed ptwit the pincode to finish the login process.
Get friends timeline:
ptwit timeline
Get someone’s tweets:
ptwit tweets someone
Get mentions or replies:
ptwit mentions ptwit replies
Commands above always list the latest 20 new tweets, which means the tweets you’ve fetched will not be listed again.
If you want to list a specified number of tweets, use switch -c:
ptwit timeline -c 30
Or specified page (20 tweets per page):
ptwit tweets -p 2 someone
Post a new tweet:
ptwit post hello world ptwit post < tweet.txt
Get public timeline:
ptwit public
Send message to someone:
ptwit send someone hello, ptwit is awesome cat message.txt | ptwit send someone
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