turses 0.1.4

A Twitter client with a curses interface.

turses is a Twitter client with a sexy curses interface written in Python. Various parts of the codebase are borrowed from the Tyrs project by Nicolas Paris.

The goal of the project is to build a full-featured and flexible Twitter client.

Installation

If you downloaded the source code

$ python setup.py install

With pip

$ pip install turses

or (but you should consider using pip):

$ easy_install turses

Features

• Multiple timelines (buffers)

• Multi-column

• Tweet, Reply, Retweet, Delete tweet

• Follow/Unfollow

• Favorite/Unfavorite

• Direct Messages

• Open URLs in browser

• Thread view

• Unread count

• Search

• View any user’s tweets

• Fully customizable

• Multiple accounts

Development

The code is hosted on a git repo.

turses is evolving fast, a list of tasks can be found on the on the issue tracker.

To contribute code:

1. Create a branch from develop

2. Commit your changes

3. Add yourself to AUTHORS

4. Send a pull request

Any feedback is very much appreciated.

Roadmap

• Documentation

• Lists

• Streaming

• Notifications

• Multiple sessions

• Geo

• Blocking

Screenshots

A turses session with multiple columns running on urxvt:

License

turses is licensed under a GPLv3 license, see LICENSE for details.

0.1.4

• update all timelines periodically

• configurable default timelines

• bugfix: don’t crash with empty timelines

• bugfix: manual retweet crashed

• bugfix: don’t capture all input

0.1.3

• bugfix: packaging error

0.1.2

• bugfix: error with packaging

0.1.1

• bindings to update all timelines

• bugfix: generate_token_file instead of create_token_file

0.1.0

• binding to open focused status authors’ tweets

• reload configuration

• configuration default location and format changed

0.0.15

• bugfix: DM recipient was not correctly resolved

• fetch newer tweets when scrolling up from the top and viceversa

• show retweets by default

0.0.14

• bugfix: logging

0.0.13

• thread view

0.0.12

• multiple visible timelines in columns

• fix bug with unicode input

• open URLs in browser

0.0.11

• include retweets in home timeline

• fix bug with non-existent method

0.0.10

• unread count

• mark all tweets in active timeline as read

• fix (again) a bug with mouse events

0.0.9

• compose tweet with same hashtags as the focused status

• create search timeline with hashtags from focused status

0.0.8

• fix bug: self follow/unfollow

• fix bug: editor signals

• direct messages :)

• persistent timeline cursor

0.0.7

• fix critical bug, missing dependency urwid

0.0.6

• fix bug with mouse events

• relative imports to avoid ImportError exceptions

0.0.5

• more colorful defaults

• see your own tweets

• search for a user’s tweets

0.0.4

• follow and unfollow

• pluggable UI and API

• associate callbacks to API calls

0.0.3

• bug with non-ascii characters in search solved

• asynchronous API calls

• favorite/unfavorite tweets

• Favorites timeline

0.0.2

• tests with coverage check

• fixed bug with missing dependency in setup.py

• decoration for tabs