twitter

   1 #!/bin/bash
   2 # a twitter client (uses .netrc for authentication)
   3
   4 [ "$1" == "-h" ] && {
   5  echo " use: $(basename $0) -h | [ tweet ]"
   6  echo "      -h help"
   7  echo "      no arguments gets latest updates"
   8  exit
   9 }
  10
  11 function friends {
  12  curl --connect-timeout 5 -s -n $1 | awk '
  13   {
  14    sub(/^[^>]*>/,"",$0)
  15    gsub(/lt;/,"<",$0)
  16    gsub(/gt;/,">",$0)
  17    gsub(/&amp;/,"",$0)
  18   }
  19   /text/ { sub(/<[^<]*>$/,"",$0); m=$0 }
  20   /created_at/ { sub(/<[^<]*>$/,"",$0); at=$0 }
  21   /_name/ { sub(/<[^<]*>$/,"",$0); x[++i] = $0 " : " m "\n\t[" at "]" }
  22   END { for(j=i;j>0;j--) print x[j] }
  23  '
  24 }
  25
  26 function update {
  27  curl -s -n -d "status=$msg" $1 &>/dev/null || echo "tweet broke"
  28 }
  29
  30 if [ -t 0 ];then msg="$*";else msg="$(cat -)";fi
  31
  32 if [ "$msg" ];then
  33  update http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml
  34 else
  35  friends http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.xml
  36 fi