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TwitShell-4.06
/ TwitCurses

NAME

TwitCurses - Command-line microblogging client with Curses interface.

SYNOPSIS

TwitCurses [OPTIONS]

VERSION

Version 4.06

DESCRIPTION

This is TwitCurses, the interactive version of TwitShell.

TwitShell is a microblogging client that runs via the command-line. It supports many microblogging platform such as Twitter and Identi.ca.

The main purpose of TwitShell is to supply an simple tool to fetch user's posted data (statuses, direct messages, etc...) and post data (status update, direct messages) via a command-line interface.

TwitShell supports many microblogging features such as user timeline and friends timeline, direct messages (both sent and received), status update and direct messages dispatch.

TwitShell's code is based on the specifications of Twitter API.

OPTIONS

--username [USERNAME], --username=[USERNAME]

Specifies an account's username. It is used also for for authentication. This option is required for every action.

--count [COUNT], --count=[COUNT]

Specifies the number of posts to retrieve and to show.

--network [NETWORK], --network=[NETWORK]

Specifies the desired microblogging platform. Se section NETWORKS for more info. Default is twitter.

--refresh [0|1], --refresh=[0|1]

Automatic refresh trigger. If enabled (1), data will be automatically refreshed after SECS seconds. Can be used only in interactive mode (TwitCurses).

--secs [SECS], --secs=[SECS]

Refresh timeout. It in seconds. Used with --refresh.

THE .twitshellrc FILE

The .twitshell file is read on TwitShell startup. In this file may be set the same options of OPTIONS section with the syntax variable = value. A .twitshell might look like this:

username = examplename
count = 35
shorten = 1

This default values are overwritten by the command-line arguments.

KEYS

q

Quit TwitCurses.

f

Friends timeline tab.

p

Profile (personal timeline) tab.

i

Inbox (received direct messages) tab.

o

Outbox (sent direct messages) tab.

NETWORKS

twitter

Twitter.com (default value).

identi.ca

Identi.ca

AUTHOR

Alessandro Ghedini, <al3xbio at gmail.com>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to the issues list at Github: http://github.com/AlexBio/TwitShell/issues

SUPPORT

Support and information about TwitShell can be found at:

TwitShell homepage

http://alexlog.co.cc/projects/twitshell

Git repository

http://github.com/AlexBio/TwitShell

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2010 Alessandro Ghedini.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License.

See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.