Twitmon update: read and post to Twitter on the command line
I've posted a new version of Twitmon, my Python command-line Twitter client. The new version includes a fix to work with the latest version of Twyt, but more importantly, it can now be used to post status updates to Twitter as well!
Download: twitmon, and don't forget to set your username and password in the script!
Twitmon will fetch new Twitter updates from your followees every couple of minutes, just as before. But now you can update your status as well, just by typing the new status and hitting enter.
You can also edit the update as you're typing it, and use the arrow keys to navigate back and forth through updates you've previously typed.
Occasionally, the Twitter posts will be refreshed while you're typing, and mess up the display. You can use the arrow keys to go back, then forward, to clean things up. It's ugly when this happens, but it still works.
Andy Price Said,
June 13, 2008 @ 10:13 am
Hi,
I'm the author of python-twyt. I just came across Twitmon and It looks good.
One suggestion: how about prompting for the username and password at startup, if they're not set, so that it doesn't have to be kept in the script (thus making it system-wide installable)?
You can use Python's getpass module to prompt for the password and it won't show it while you type.
Let me know if you find any bugs in python-twyt.
mogrify Said,
June 13, 2008 @ 11:23 am
Thanks Andy, it's been a pleasure using python-twyt. I've paused development on this for now, because of the Twitter API limit. But yeah, that's a good idea, I'd like to put the authentication in ~/.twitmon, or something like that. I've been working on a curses-based interface for it as well.
Thanks for your comment.