turses 0.1.8

A Twitter client with a curses interface.

A Twitter client for the console

turses is a Twitter client with a sexy curses interface written in Python. It’s based on Tyrs by Nicolas Paris.

The goal of the project is to build a full-featured, lightweight, and extremely configurable 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. Feel free to submit issues, feature requests or participate in ongoing discussions.

To contribute code:

1. Create a branch from develop

2. Commit your changes

3. Add yourself to AUTHORS

4. Send a pull request to develop

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.

0.1.8

• bugfix: packaging error

0.1.7

• bugfix: inconsistencies when navigating tweets with arrow keys

• configurable status wrappers: box, divider or none

0.1.6

• colored urls

• colored favorites

• bugfix: non-ascii characters on templates made turses crash

• visual indicators for status types (retweet, reply, favorite)

0.1.5

• configurable tab text

• colored hashtags and usernames

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