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TwitShell-4.10
/ TwitCurses

NAME

TwitCurses - Command-line microblogging client with Curses interface.

SYNOPSIS

TwitCurses [OPTIONS]

VERSION

Version 4.10

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, <alexbio at cpan.org>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-twitshell at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=TwitShell. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc TwitCurses

You can also look for information at:

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.