November 28, 2009

Following Twitter from the Command Line

Previously I showed you how to tweet from the command line. It’s even easier to follow your twitter network from the command line. #!/bin/bash user=twitteruser pass=twitterpass curl -s -u ${user}:${pass} ‘http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.xml?count=30′ | xmlstarlet sel -t -m ‘//status’ -v ‘user/screen_name’ -o ‘: ‘ -v ‘text’ -n This will show you the last 30 tweets in your [...]

March 23, 2009

Tweet from the command line

Twitter is awesome, but who has time to fire up a browser, log in, type what you’re doing, just to be a part of the Twitter sensation?   If you spend more of your time on the command line, I’ll show you how to send your twitter messages using a simple bash script. #!/bin/bash user=twitteruser pass=twitterpass [...]