twtr

Setup

1. Make a free account and project at developer.x.com and get the following keys:

• Bearer Token
• Consumer Key
• Consumer Secret
• Access Token
• Access Token Secret

2. Add these lines to your ~/.zshrc or ~/.bashrc:

December 2025 update: this is honestly bad practice, so I recommend putting your environment variables in a separate .env file and then exporting that. Nevertheless, you need to somehow expose these keys to the environment.

export TWEEPY_BEARER_TOKEN="<your_bearer_token>"
export TWEEPY_CONSUMER_KEY="<your_consumer_key>"
export TWEEPY_CONSUMER_SECRET="<your_consumer_secret>"
export TWEEPY_ACCESS_TOKEN="<your_access_token>"
export TWEEPY_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET="<your_access_token_secret>"

Then reload your config:

source ~/.zshrc

or

source ~/.bashrc

Usage

Install from PyPI with uv:

uv tool install twtr

Then tweet from the CLI:

twtr "your tweet here"

Development

Set up the development environment:

uv sync

Run the package locally for testing:

# Using the entry point script
uv run twtr "your tweet here"

# Or as a Python module
uv run python -m twtr.cli "your tweet here"

Structure

.
├── LICENSE
├── README.md
├── keys.png
├── pyproject.toml
├── twtr
│   ├── __init__.py      # Public API (expose main functions/classes)
│   └── cli.py           # CLI entry point (separate from core logic)
└── uv.lock