Bash Script to Post to Twitter
May 25 20080 comments | post comment
Here is a quick/easy way to post to twitter from the cli.
#!/bin/bash
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USERNAME="your@email.com"
PASSWORD="password"
URL=http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml
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if [ ! -n "$1" ]
then
echo "Message not long enough"
exit
fi
message="$@"
maxlen=140;
len=`echo ${#message}`
echo $len;
if [ $len -gt $maxlen ]
then
echo "Your message was longer than 140 characters...";
fi
result=`curl -u $USERNAME:$PASSWORD -d status="$message" $URL`L`
Put the script in /usr/local/bin/
Then it is as easy as:
user@river:~$ twitter Your Message Here
Update:
Updated the script. No longer using expr to get the length of message. I was getting errors in OS X.
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