Twitter from commandline

Asbjørn Alexander Fellinghaug — Mon, 05 May 2008 19:26:44 +0000

I’ve been taken by the Twitter storm these days.. Damn, I should focus a hole lot more on my master report. Well, this took me only one little hour, so it’s not that waste of time.. So, I guess you have heard about the new “facebook” called Twitter? Well, its this new web community thing were people can write their current status for what they are doing in the world.. And, of course, one can follow friends and pay attention to were / what they are doing.. Now, after some time I found it rather heavy to enter the twitter webpage, login, and then post a new twitter message for each time I want to update my status. So, as a python fan I am, I created myself a little python script to capture this problem. It relies on the python-twitter module available at the Google Code pages. So, lets have a look at the code. I have named this file “update.py”, however feel free to rename it.

#!/usr/bin/env python
import twitter
import sys
 
USERNAME=""
PASSWORD=""
 
def postNewMessage(msg):
    api = twitter.Api()
    api = twitter.Api(username="", password="")
 
    if isinstance(msg, list):
        msg = " ".join(msg)
    msg = unicode(msg, "utf-8")
    if len(msg) > 140:
        print "ERROR: Message can't be over 140 chars."
        return
    try:
        api.PostUpdate(msg)
        print "OK. Was %i chars in msg." % len(msg)
    except Exception, e:
        print "FUck.."
 
    api.ClearCredentials()
 
if __name__ == "__main__":
    if len(sys.argv) > 1:
        t = sys.argv[1:]
        if len(t) == 1 and len(t[0]) > 10:
            # writes ./update "hi there mate"
            postNewMessage(t[0])
        else:
            # writes ./update hello world
            postNewMessage(sys.argv[1:])
    else:
        print "fuck"

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Twitter from commandline