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Created September 1, 2012 00:20
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Bash script using xmlstarlet to return latest twitter status to minecraft server chat via screen
#!/bin/bash
# minecraft screen session
SCREEN_SESSION=minecraft
# using xmlstarlet http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net to parse xml/rss and return latest twitter status
function TwitGet () {
RSS_URL=api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline/$1.rss
rssversion=$(wget ${RSS_URL} -O - 2>/dev/null |
xmlstarlet sel -T -t -v '/rss/channel/item[1]/title')
echo "$rssversion"
}
# Twitter feeds - usage "VAR=$(TwitGet twittername)"
NOTCH=$(TwitGet notch)
JEB=$(TwitGet jeb_)
DINNER=$(TwitGet Dinnerbone)
# one line per twitter entry - usage screen -p 0 -S ${SCREEN_SESSION} -X stuff "`printf "say ${VAR}\r"`"
if [ : ]; then
screen -p 0 -S ${SCREEN_SESSION} -X stuff "`printf "say ${NOTCH}\r"`"
screen -p 0 -S ${SCREEN_SESSION} -X stuff "`printf "say ${JEB}\r"`"
screen -p 0 -S ${SCREEN_SESSION} -X stuff "`printf "say ${DINNER}\r"`"
exit 0
fi
#hacked together by avoidedlife -
#by searching and asking the intenets and putting bits and pieces of code together
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