weetwit 0.6.1

Twitter suite for Weechat.

author

Daniël Franke (@ainmosni) <daniel[at]ams-sec[dot]org>

Welcome to the wonderful world of weetwit, a plugin that will transform weechat to a (soon-to-be) fully-featured twitter client.

Features

• Realtime streaming timeline.

• Updating, replying and retweeting according to Twitter standards.

• Aware of twitter URL shortening.

• Tools to query users and status updates.

• Able to (un-)follow directly from weechat.

• Share updates with IRC.

Installation

Before you can use it, you have to “create” a new application at twitter, the reason for this is that I can’t include the application keys without them becoming public knowledge. You can create the application at Twitter. The application needs read/write access.

First we need to install the module:

Installation through pip:

# pip install weetwit
$ Copy the plugin to ~/.weechat/python

Installation from source:

# cd /path/to/source/files
# pip install tweepy
# python setup.py install
$ cp plugin/weetwit.py ~/.weechat/python

Configuration of weechat:

] /python load weetwit.py
] /set plugins.var.python.weetwit.access_token access_token_goes_here
] /set plugins.var.python.weetwit.access_token_secret access_token_secret_goes_here
] /set plugins.var.python.weetwit.consumer_key consumer_key_goes_here
] /set plugins.var.python.weetwit.consumer_secret consumer_secret_goes_here
] /python reload weetwit

You should now have a running weetwit.

Configuration parameters

There are multiple configuration parameters you can alter, here is a short description of them.

• plugins.var.python.weetwit.show_in_current: Show the timeline in the current window.

• plugins.var.python.weetwit.storage_dir: The location of where all the weetwit related files will be kept.

• plugins.var.python.weetwit.timelined_location: The location of the timelined monitoring daemon.

Weechat commands

Many commands take <status identification> as argument, this can either be the ID of the status or a screen_name. In case of the screen_name, we will use the ID of last status by screen_name. (Note: if screen_name hasn’t showed up in your timeline, this won’t work.)

• /tweet <status>

  • Update your status, this can be 140 characters long. URLs will be shortened using t.co by twitter.

• /tinfo <status identification>

  • Shows more detailed information about a status update.

• /treply [.]<status identification> <message>

  • Replies to the relevant status update, this will always start with the @screen_name of the person the status belonged to, if the identification is prefixed with a dot, a dot will be prepended to the message so that your other followers will see it as well.

• /retweet <status identification> [message]

  • Retweets the relevant status update, if [message] is present this will prepended to the retweet.

• /tshare <status identification>

  • Shares the relevant status update with the current IRC channel.

• /twhois <screen_name>

  • Displays information about screen_name.

• /tfollow <screen_name>

  • Follows screen_name.

• /tunfollow <screen_name>

  • Unfollows screen_name.

FAQ

Q:

Why does your script spawn an extra python process?

A:

Because weechat doesn’t support background threads, and blocks on long running operations, this process is what monitors your timeline.

Q:

I don’t want those ugly STATUSIDs in my weetwit buffer.

A:

Add a filter like this: “/filter add statusid python.weetwit * [#STATUSID:” now you can toggle between them hidden and visible, depending on your needs.