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Publish quotes as tweets to Twitter using twt.exe (Windows)
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:: Script: quotes_en.bat | |
:: Version: 2.0 - 20160820 | |
:: Platform: Windows | |
:: Databases: quotes_en_number, quotes_en.ini | |
:: Creator: wandersick - https://wandersick.blogspot.com/2016/08/auto-posting-inspirational-quotes-on.html | |
:: Purpose: Publish quotes as tweets to Twitter using twt.exe (Windows) | |
:: | |
:: Usage: Save this script and quotes in the same folder. | |
:: twt.exe should be in system enviromental path. | |
:: Change 'English Quotes' to your blog name. | |
:: Ensure write access is permitted to quotes_en_number (generated by script on first run) | |
:: | |
:: Quotes formatted as below should be saved in a text file named quotes_en.ini. Run/schedule this script on Windows. | |
:: | |
:: “Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.”= Confucius | |
:: “Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.”= Albert Einstein | |
:: | |
:: Caution: Be careful of chars like " (not “ or ”) in quotes that could break this script | |
@echo off | |
:: go to working dir | |
cd /d %~p0 | |
if not exist quotes_en_number echo 0 >quotes_en_number | |
for /f "usebackq" %%i in (`type quotes_en_number`) do set skip=%%i&set skipNum=%%i | |
if %skip% EQU 0 ( | |
set skip= | |
) else ( | |
set skip=skip=%skip% | |
) | |
for /f "%skip% usebackq tokens=1,2 delims==" %%i in (`type "quotes_en.ini"`) do ( | |
twt.exe %%i%%j | |
goto :skip | |
) | |
:skip | |
set /a skipNum+=1 | |
echo %skipNum% > quotes_en_number |
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