A Twitter client with a curses interface.
Project description
A Twitter client for the console
A turses session with multiple columns running on urxvt:
The goal of the project is to build a full-featured, lightweight, and extremely configurable Twitter client.
Documentation
The documentation for turses is available on ReadTheDocs.
Take a look at this screencast for an overview of the features of turses and its usage.
Installation
If you downloaded the source code
$ python setup.py install
With pip
$ pip install turses
or (but 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.
If you feel hackish, reading the dev docs is recommended.
- To contribute code:
Create a branch from develop
Code following pep8 rules.
Commit your changes
Add yourself to AUTHORS
Send a pull request to the develop branch
Any feedback is very much appreciated.
Roadmap
Lists
Streaming
Notifications
Sessions
License
turses is licensed under a GPLv3 license, see LICENSE for details.
0.2.4
bugfix: unable to focus the topmost status when having multiple columns
0.2.3
per-account configuration
bugfix: crashed when navigating to empty buffers
0.2.2
fix regression: timelines not updating periodically
0.2.1
bugfix: the Twitter entities were not processed every time
0.2.0
logging
0.1.18
bugfix: crash when rendering direct messages
0.1.17
border around editor
bugfix: help and version were removed by stdout replacement
debug mode
offline debugging
0.1.16
show a popup with user info when pressing i
0.1.15
configurable editor alignment
make turses play nicely with terminal multiplexers (Joe Di Castro)
follow and unfollow users typing their nick in an editor (Giannis Damigos)
bugfix: pressing <Esc> in search user editor made turses crash
bugfix: avoid duplicate usernames in replies
0.1.14
bugfix: crash when shifting buffers to the beginning or end
0.1.13
bugfix: could not remove own retweets
bugfix: inconsistencies with help
0.1.12
bugfix: missing key binding in help (Giannis Damigos)
bugfix: status messages cleared the editor
configurable status bar visibility
changes to manual retweet template
set console title to turses
0.1.11
bugfix: exception when marking tweet as favorite
0.1.10
expanded URLs for search results
bugfix: crashed when expanded URLs were missing
0.1.9
open focused status in a browser
show expanded URLs
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
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