ptwit 0.0.4

A simple twitter command line client

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