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May 19, 2010 08:04
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A _very_ simple script that allows sending a file line-by-line as your tweets. Deletes line sent from file. Easy to hook up to Cron. Uses Basic auth.
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#!/bin/bash | |
# Usage: twitlinesender.py <lines.txt> | |
API_URL="http://api.twitter.com/1" | |
API_USER="YOUR_TWITTER_USERNAME" | |
API_PASSWORD="YOUR_TWITTER_PASSWORD" | |
value=`cat $1 | head -n 1` | |
encoded_value=`python -c "import urllib; print urllib.quote('''$value''')"` | |
echo $value | |
echo $encoded_value | |
if [ ! -z $value ] | |
then | |
curl -X POST -d "status=$encoded_value" -u $API_USER:$API_PASSWORD $API_URL/statuses/update.xml | |
tmpfile=`mktemp` | |
cat $1 | tail -n +2 > $tmpfile | |
cat $tmpfile > $1 | |
else | |
echo "Empty string as status, not sending" | |
fi | |
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