Scripting Twitter with Perl + LWP
March 18th, 2007 by Stephane KattoorA 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.
Running the script
Simply launch the script to get the usage :
spaghetti% ./twitter-direct.pl
Usage:
twitter-direct.pl --login login --password password --to user --text
"text to send"Options:
–login
lets you specify the login of your Twitter account
–password
lets you specify your password
–to
the target user of the message
–text
the direct message to send
So for example :
spaghetti% ./twitter.pl --login mylogin --password mypassword --to "mybuddy" --text 'Hi ! Want to go to the movie ?'
That’s it !
Download
Related
- Here is another command line tool for twitter : Twitish.
- Twitter in a color Terminal
March 18th, 2007 at 20:28
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March 19th, 2007 at 20:58
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April 7th, 2007 at 22:43
Awesome. I should make good use of this, merci !
June 24th, 2007 at 1:12
thanks for your posts..great share for learners
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