This work by Stephane KATTOOR is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
A little follow up on yesterday article about scripting Twitter with cURL: the solution was working, but somehow inconvenient. Not practical to have to go and fetch the user id every time you want to send a direct message !
This time, I scripted Twitter direct message with Perl and LWP (libwww-perl), for a much more convenient solution. I designed it to be used like a sort of universal paging service.
Twitter already provides an API but it is currently very limited. It will let you fairly easily change your status, but won’t let you send a direct message.
Comes in cURL. cURL is a very versatile command line utility which is designed to script web pages interactions. As a little demo, I’ll show you how to use it to easily overcome the shortcomings of Twitter’s API.
