twitter [action] [options]
+
ACTIONS:
+ authorize authorize the command-line tool to interact with Twitter
follow add the specified user to your follow list
friends get latest tweets from your friends (default action)
help print this help text that you are currently reading
leave remove the specified user from your following list
public get latest public tweets
replies get latest replies
- search searchtwitter (Beware: octothorpe, escape it)
+ search search twitter (Beware: octothorpe, escape it)
set set your twitter status
shell login the twitter shell
+
OPTIONS:
- -e --email <email> your email to login to twitter
- -p --password <password> your twitter password
-r --refresh run this command forever, polling every once
in a while (default: every 5 minutes)
-R --refresh-rate <rate> set the refresh rate (in seconds)
-t --timestamp show time before status lines
-d --datestamp shoe date before status lines
--no-ssl use HTTP instead of more secure HTTPS
+ --oauth <filename> filename to read/store oauth credentials to
FORMATS for the --format option
urls nothing but URLs
ansi ansi colour (rainbow mode)
+
CONFIG FILES
- The config file should contain a [twitter] header, and all the desired options
- you wish to set, like so:
+ The config file should be placed in your home directory and be named .twitter.
+ It must contain a [twitter] header, and all the desired options you wish to
+ set, like so:
[twitter]
-email: <username>
-password: <password>
format: <desired_default_format_for_output>
prompt: <twitter_shell_prompt e.g. '[cyan]twitter[R]> '>
+
+ OAuth authentication tokens are stored in the file .twitter_oauth in your
+ home directory.
"""
CONSUMER_KEY='uS6hO2sV6tDKIOeVjhnFnQ'
from oauth import OAuth
import ansi
-# Please don't change this, it was provided by the fine folks at Twitter.
-# If you change it, it will not work.
-AGENT_STR = "twittercommandlinetoolpy"
-
OPTIONS = {
- 'email': None,
- 'password': None,
'action': 'friends',
'refresh': False,
'refresh_rate': 600,
}
def parse_args(args, options):
- long_opts = ['email', 'password', 'help', 'format', 'refresh',
- 'refresh-rate', 'config', 'length', 'timestamp',
+ long_opts = ['help', 'format=', 'refresh', 'oauth=',
+ 'refresh-rate=', 'config=', 'length=', 'timestamp',
'datestamp', 'no-ssl']
short_opts = "e:p:f:h?rR:c:l:td"
opts, extra_args = getopt(args, short_opts, long_opts)
for opt, arg in opts:
- if opt in ('-e', '--email'):
- options['email'] = arg
- elif opt in ('-p', '--password'):
- options['password'] = arg
- elif opt in ('-f', '--format'):
+ if opt in ('-f', '--format'):
options['format'] = arg
elif opt in ('-r', '--refresh'):
options['refresh'] = True
options['config_filename'] = arg
elif opt == '--no-ssl':
options['secure'] = False
+ elif opt == '--oauth':
+ options['oauth_filename'] = arg
if extra_args and not ('action' in options and options['action'] == 'help'):
options['action'] = extra_args[0]
def __call__(self, twitter, options):
print __doc__
+class DoNothingAction(Action):
+ def __call__(self, twitter, options):
+ pass
+
def parse_oauth_tokens(result):
for r in result.split('&'):
k, v = r.split('=')
webbrowser.open(
'http://api.twitter.com/oauth/authorize?oauth_token=' +
oauth_token)
+ time.sleep(2) # Sometimes the last command can print some
+ # crap. Wait a bit so it doesn't mess up the next
+ # prompt.
oauth_verifier = raw_input("Please type the PIN: ").strip()
twitter = Twitter(
auth=OAuth(
print >> oauth_file, oauth_token
print >> oauth_file, oauth_token_secret
oauth_file.close()
+ print
print "That's it! Your authorization keys have been written to %s." % (
options['oauth_filename'])
actions = {
+ 'authorize' : DoNothingAction,
'follow' : FollowAction,
'friends' : FriendsAction,
'help' : HelpAction,
if os.path.exists(filename):
cp = SafeConfigParser()
cp.read([filename])
- for option in ('email', 'password', 'format', 'prompt'):
+ for option in ('format', 'prompt'):
if cp.has_option('twitter', option):
options[option] = cp.get('twitter', option)
return options
+def read_oauth_file(fn):
+ f = open(fn)
+ return f.readline().strip(), f.readline().strip()
+
def main(args=sys.argv[1:]):
arg_options = {}
try:
'friends', 'public', 'replies'):
print >> sys.stderr, "You can only refresh the friends, public, or replies actions."
print >> sys.stderr, "Use 'twitter -h' for help."
- raise SystemExit(1)
-
- if options['email'] and not options['password']:
- options['password'] = getpass("Twitter password: ")
+ return 1
- if options['action'] == 'authorize':
+ if (options['action'] == 'authorize'
+ or not os.path.exists(options['oauth_filename'])):
oauth_dance(options)
- return 0
+ oauth_token, oauth_token_secret = read_oauth_file(options['oauth_filename'])
+
twitter = Twitter(
- email=options['email'], password=options['password'], agent=AGENT_STR,
+ auth=OAuth(
+ oauth_token, oauth_token_secret, CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET),
secure=options['secure'])
+
try:
Action()(twitter, options)
except NoSuchActionError, e:
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