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Twitter update from terminal (pok3's snipts ?)

Terminal - Twitter update from terminal (pok3's snipts ?)
curl -u YourUsername:YourPassword -d status="Your status message go here" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml
2009-06-27 21:47:48
User: m33600
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Twitter update from terminal (pok3's snipts ?)

Found it on snipt, pok3, is it yours?

I put my user = m33600, the password and the status was my robot message:

Settima robot message: ALARM ZONE 3 (sent via command line).

Now bots may have their identity on twitter...

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Alternatives

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Terminal - Alternatives
curl -u user:pass -d status="Tweeting from the shell" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml
2009-02-05 18:33:23
User: adamm9
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Update twitter via curl
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curl -u user -d status="Tweeting from the shell" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml
2009-08-05 02:24:01
User: matthewbauer
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Update twitter via curl

Doesn't require password (asks for it instead)

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tweet () { curl -u UserName -d status="$*" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml; }
2009-11-07 06:54:02
User: bartonski
Tags: twitter tweet
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another tweet function

This version of tweet() doesn't require you to put quotes around the body of your tweet... it also prompts you for password. It will still barf on a '!' character.

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curl -u twitter-username -d status="Hello World, Twitter!" -d source="cURL" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml
2009-12-08 14:54:33
User: MyTechieself
Tags: twitter curl api
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Update twitter via curl (and also set the "from" bit)

An improvement of the original (at: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/2872/update-twitter-via-curl) in the sense that you see a "from cURL" under your status message instead of just a "from API" ;-) Twitter automatically links it to the cURL home page.

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tweet(){ curl -u "$1" -d status="$2" "http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml"; }
2009-08-23 16:56:24
User: Code_Bleu
Tags: twitter curl function
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Update twitter via curl as Function

Type the command in the terminal and press enter to create the tweet() function. Then run as follows:

tweet MyTwitterAccount "My message goes here"

It will prompt you for password. Make sure that you use escape "\" character in message for showing varialbles or markup.

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What others think

How would I avoid revealing my password to ps?

Comment by kaedenn 37 weeks and 1 day ago

Nifty. I'll use this for my Nagios monitor. Thanks.

Comment by Scott 37 weeks and 1 day ago

@kaedenn: Take a look at the --netrc option in man curl. See also man netrc. (not tested)

Comment by dennisw 37 weeks and 1 day ago

I wrapped this into a shell script that asks for your username, then password, then message and then sends it to twitter. I would like some help, if anyone knows, in verifying whether the message actually gets sent or not and then returning that info to the command line.

Anyone interested in the command, let me know and I will post it here.

Comment by dilbert4life 36 weeks and 6 days ago

If you ommit the password, it will be asked by the curl command interactevely. In this way you can hide the passwd.

curl -u user -d status="Tweeting from the shell" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml
Comment by mdelatorre 36 weeks and 2 days ago

I d like to improve it to receive the status messaage form stdin, as a variable, so other programs may send info to twitter. As an example " Temperature in my room is %T now"

Comment by m33600 35 weeks and 5 days ago

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