NAME

maisha - Micro-blogging From Your Command Line

SYNOPSIS

maisha
maisha -c mymaisha.ini
maisha -v
maisha -u
maisha -h

DESCRIPTION

maisha gives you access to micro-blogging from your command line

OPTIONS

--config | -c

Specify the config file to read from. By default, maisha attempts to read a config file named config.ini in the current directory

--version | -v

Print out the version and exit

--usage | -u

Prints out a basic usage help screen

--help | -h

Print out the manual page.

CONFIGURATION

The configuration file must contain at least one micro-blogging service, with your username and password for that service, all other configuration settings are optional.

The configuration file itself can be in several different formats, XML, YAML, JSON, Windows INI files and even pure Perl are all supported, provided you have the correct distributions to support those file formats. As a guide the following are known to work with this application:

Config::Tiny    - INI file format
JSON            - JSON file format
JSON::Syck      - JSON file format
XML::Simple     - XML file format
YAML            - YAML file format
YAML::Syck      - YAML file format

For further options for other file formats see Config::Tiny for more information. See also examples listed further below.

By default the INI and YAML file formats are used, with the application looking for a default configuration file in your $HOME directory, named '.maisha.ini', '.maisha.yml' or '.maisha.yaml'.

Application Configuration

The configuration for the application itself are contained within a 'CONFIG' section in your configuration file. All settings are optional, and will default to sensible values should they not be user defined.

• prompt

  The prompt you wish to see on the command line. This will default to 'twitter>' if not configured.

• tag

  The tag you wish to have added to the end of an update/say command. This will default to '[from maisha]' if not configured. If you do not wish a tag to be added at all, set the tag to '.' in the configuration file.

• order

  Describes the order for printing status messages when a timeline command is requested. Will default to 'descending' if not configured. Setting is case insensitive and should be set to 'ascending' or 'asc' to reverse the order.

• limit

  Describes how many status messages should be printed when a timeline command is requested. Will default to the last 20 if not configured.

Service Configuration

For each service you have available (the default install includes 'Identica' and 'Twitter') include an associated section in your configuration file, providing a username and password for that service. If any service fails to connect, a warning is emitted. If the application is not able to connect to any service, the application will terminate with an error message.

• username

  Your username login to your network service account

• password

  Your password login to your network service account

COMMANDS

Note that not all services offer all commands. Where commands are not applicable for a service, and appropriate warning message will be emitted.

• friends

  Displays the most recent status messages from each of your friends.

• friends_timeline | ft [<limit>]

  Displays the most recent status messages within your friends timeline.

• public_timeline | pt [<limit>]

  Displays the most recent status messages within the public timeline.

• followers

  Displays the most recent status messages from each of your followers.

• replies | re [<limit>]

  Displays the most recent reply messages.

• direct_messages | dm [<limit>]

  Displays the most recent direct messages you have received.

• send_message | send | sm <user> <message>

  Post a direct message to another user. Include the username of the person you wish to send a message to, followed by your message, of upto 140 characters in length.

• update | say <message>

  Posts a new status message, of upto 140 characters in length.

• exit | quit | q

  Exits the program.

• help

  Provides help for a specific command, or provides a summary of the commands available if requested with no arguments.

Example Configuration Files

INI Style Configuration

Requires Config::Tiny to be available.

[CONFIG]
order: asc
tag: .

[Identica]
username: yourlogin
password: yourpassword

[Twitter]
username: yourlogin
password: yourpassword

YAML Style Configuration

Requires YAML or YAML::Syck to be available.

--- #YAML:1.0
CONFIG:
  order: asc
  tag: .

Twitter:
  username: yourlogin
  password: yourpassword

Identica:
  username: yourlogin
  password: yourpassword

Perl Style Configuration

No additional dependencies required.

{
  CONFIG      => {'order': 'asc','tag': '.'},
  Twitter     => {'username': 'yourlogin','password': 'yourpassword'},
  Identica    => {'username': 'yourlogin','password': 'yourpassword'},
}

AUTHOR

Copyright (c) 2009 Barbie <barbie@cpan.org> Miss Barbell Productions.

LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html

cpanm App::Maisha

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install App::Maisha