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| fdbae010 | 1 | Python Twitter Tools |
| a65893e4 | 2 | ==================== |
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| f1a8ed67 | 4 | The Minimalist Twitter API for Python is a Python API for Twitter, |
| 5 | everyone's favorite Web 2.0 Facebook-style status updater for people | |
| 6 | on the go. | |
| fdbae010 | 7 | |
| f1a8ed67 | 8 | Also included is a twitter command-line tool for getting your friends' |
| 9 | tweets and setting your own tweet from the safety and security of your | |
| 5b8b1ead | 10 | favorite shell and an IRC bot that can announce Twitter updates to an |
| f1a8ed67 | 11 | IRC channel. |
| fdbae010 | 12 | |
| 5f47b302 | 13 | For more information, after installing the `twitter` package: |
| fdbae010 | 14 | |
| 15 | * import the `twitter` package and run help() on it | |
| 16 | * run `twitter -h` for command-line tool help | |
| 17 | * run `twitterbot -h` for IRC bot help | |
| 8be9a740 | 18 | * visit http://mike.verdone.ca/twitter for more info |
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| 22 | The Command-Line Tool | |
| 23 | ===================== | |
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| 25 | The command-line tool currently supports the following things: | |
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| 27 | * view your friends' recent tweets | |
| 28 | * view your recent replies | |
| 29 | * view the public timeline | |
| 30 | * follow and unfollow (leave) friends | |
| 5f47b302 | 31 | * view tweets from lists |
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32 | * various output formats for tweet information |
| 33 | * read your username and password from a config file | |
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| 35 | The bottom line: type `twitter`, receive tweets. | |
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| 39 | The IRC Bot | |
| 40 | =========== | |
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| 42 | The IRC bot is associated with a twitter account (either your own account or an | |
| 43 | account you create for the bot). The bot announces all tweets from friends | |
| 44 | it is following. It can be made to follow or leave friends through IRC /msg | |
| 45 | commands. | |
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| 49 | twitter-log | |
| 50 | =========== | |
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| 52 | `twitter-log` is a simple command-line tool that dumps all public | |
| 53 | tweets from a given user in a simple text format. It is useful to get | |
| 54 | a complete offsite backup of all your tweets. Run `twitter-log` and | |
| 55 | read the instructions. | |
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| 8be9a740 | 58 | Python Twitter Tools are released under an MIT License. |