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bti

bti - send a tweet to twitter.com or identi.ca from the command line

Synopsis

bti [--account account] [--password password] [--action action] [--user screenname] [--host HOST_NAME] [--proxy PROXY:PORT] [--logfile LOGFILE] [--bash] [--debug] [--version] [--help]

DESCRIPTION

bti sends a tweet message to twitter.com or identi.ca.

OPTIONS

--account account

Specify the twitter.com or identi.ca account name.

--password password

Specify the password of your twitter.com or identi.ca account.

--action action

Specify the action which you want to perform. Valid options are "update" to send a message, "friends" to see your friends timeline, "public" to track public timeline, "replies" to see replies to your messages and "user" to see a specific user timeline.

--user screenname

Specify the user you want to see his/her messages while the action is "user".

--host HOST_NAME

Specify the host which you want to send your message to. Valid options are "twitter" to send to twitter.com and "identica" to send to identi.ca.
If no host is specified, the default is to send to twitter.com.

--proxy PROXY:PORT

Specify a http proxy value. This is not a required option, and only needed by systems that are behind a http proxy.
If --proxy is not specified but the environment variable 'http_proxy' is set the latter will be used.

--logfile LOGFILE

Specify a logfile for bti to write status messages to. LOGFILE is in relation to the user's home directory, not an absolute path to a file.

--debug

Print a whole bunch of debugging messages to stdout.

--bash

Add the working directory and a '$' in the tweet message to help specify it is coming from a command line. Don't put the working directory and the '$' in the tweet message.
This mode also does not report back any errors that might have happened when sending the message, and it sends it in the background, returning immediately, allowing the process to continue on.

--version

Print version number.

--help

Print help text.

DESCRIPTION

bti provides an easy way to send tweet messages direct from the command line or any script. It reads the message on standard input and uses the account and password settings either from the command line options, or from a config file, to send the message out.

It's primary focus is to allow you to log everything that you type into a bash shell, in a crazy, "this is what I'm doing right now!" type of way, letting the world follow along with you constant moving between directories and refreshing your email queue to see if there's anything interesting going on.

To hook bti up to your bash shell, export the following variable:

FC PROMPT_COMMAND='history 1 | sed -e "s/^\s*[0-9]*\s*//" | bti --bash'F[]

This example assumes that you have the FC~/.btiF[] set up with your account and password information already in it, otherwise you can specify them as an option.

CONFIGURATION

The account and password can be stored in a configuration file in the users home directory in a file named FC.btiF[] The structure of this file is as follows:

account

The twitter.com or identi.ca account name you wish to use to send this message with.

password

The twitter.com or identi.ca password for the account you wish to use to send this message with.

action

Specify the action which you want to perform. Valid options are "update" to send a message, "friends" to see your friends timeline, "public" to track public timeline, "replies" to see replies to your messages and "user" to see a specific user timeline.

screenname

Specify the user you want to see his/her messages while the action is "user".

host

The host you want to use to send the message to. Valid options are either "twitter" or "identica" to send to twitter.com or identi.ca respectively.

proxy

The http proxy needed to send data out to the Internet.

logfile

The logfile name for bti to write what happened to. This file is relative to the user's home directory. If this file is not specified here or on the command line, no logging will be written to the disk.

There is an example config file called FCbti.exampleF[] in the source tree that shows the structure of the file if you need an example to work off of.

Configuration options have the following priority:

command line option

config file option

environment variables

For example, command line options always override any config file option, or any environment variables.

AUTHOR

Written by Greg Kroah-Hartman FCgreg@kroah.comF[].