Tutorial: Updating Twitter Status via Shell Script
On February - 9 - 2010
The Goal
Updating twitter status via shell script. The command used to send the HTTP request is POST a.k.a lwp-request (a perl script) that included in most linux distribution.
The Process
- Open your text editor i.e. gedit/geany/etc or even vi you are die hard fans of this editor.
- Copy and paste code below.
#!/bin/bash # TUNAME="lesstalkme" TUPASS="" TSTATUS="" TURL="http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml" TDATA="source=LTME&status=" # print some fancy header :) echo "-----------------------------------------" echo " Twitter Status Updater" echo " http://www.less-talk-more-example.info/" echo "------------------------------------------" echo -n "Twitter Password: " read -ers TUPASS echo -e "\nEnter Twitter Status:" read TSTATUS # replace some characters ( I'm too lazy to replace all the characters :)) TSTATUS=`echo $TSTATUS | sed 's/ /%20/g'` # space => %20 TSTATUS=`echo $TSTATUS | sed 's/@/%40/g'` # @ => %40 TSTATUS=`echo $TSTATUS | sed 's/\//%2F/g'` # / => %2F TSTATUS=`echo $TSTATUS | sed 's/:/%3A/g'` # : => %3B TSTATUS=`echo $TSTATUS | sed 's/#/%23/g'` # # => %23 # now POST the data echo "" echo -n "Updating status..." echo "${TDATA}${TSTATUS}" | POST -C $TUNAME:$TUPASS $TURL | grep $TUNAME > /dev/null # check status # ------------ # successfull request always return XML format that containts our username # so we grep that to check the status if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then echo "DONE." else echo "ERROR." fi
- Replace TUNAME value with your own username.
- Save to somewhere i.e. /tmp directory just for testing.
- Name it twitter.sh
- Open the shell terminal in GNOME System » Application » Terminal
- Go to /tmp directory and give execute permission to the file.
$ cd /tmp $ chmod +x twitter.sh
- Execute the file, you’ll be promted to enter twitter password and status.
$ ./twitter.sh
- Fill it and voila!! your twitter status has been updated :).
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Download the Code
twitter.sh.zip via ziddu.com.
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Source:
http://www.less-talk-more-example.info/2010/02/update-twitter-status-via-shell-script.html
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