Comments on: UPDATED: Twittering Without a Client App

By: Justin

Justin — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 23:51:47 +0000

Hi there,

I’m a scripting newbie trying to get twitter on my desktop via geektool.

I was able to use one the scripts posted above (thank you). However, the formatting is a little dense.

Is there a way to add a space between each twitter entry?

Any help or input is greatly appreciated.

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:45:35 +0000

Oh and if your wondering Thats just my name and DOB. Some people seemed to get the whole username and password this wrong.

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:00:23 +0000

Well i just fell for the newbie error of blogs, damn html. so on the first “title”, wrap it with less-than and greater-than signs, on the second one wrap with the slash “/title”.

curl -s -u username:password http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.rss | perl -nle ‘print for m:title(.*)/title:’ | head -n 6 | tail -n 5

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 12:54:31 +0000

Just found this blog as i was looking for the same thing. Anyway i was playing round with the scripts here and there and managed to produce a script that woks perfectly:

curl -s -u username:password
http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.rss | perl -nle ‘print for m:(.*):’ | head -n 6 | tail -n 5

With this code it will only show your top 5 tweets

Tips.

Twitter only allows you to call this information on your IP address 100 times an hour. So if have been trying to get it to work and have been failing try setting the Refresh in Geektool to a larger number

By: Benson

Benson — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 21:06:29 +0000

using pastie.org might overcome some of the constraints :)

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Weekly App Store Picks: Feb. 21, 2009 - TheAppleBlog — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 20:15:55 +0000

[...] up, as a frequent tweeter, I was pleased to learn about desktop tweeting without a client app earlier this week. Check out the article for a helpful how-to [...]

By: Nick Santilli

Nick Santilli — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 06:24:04 +0000

@Anthony – that image and plenty of other cool apple-themed wallpapers are listed here: http://tr.im/gDrd
Enjoy

By: links for 2009-02-19 « Brent Sordyl’s Blog

links for 2009-02-19 « Brent Sordyl’s Blog — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:02:34 +0000

[...] Twittering Without a Client App – TheAppleBlog You’ll need Geek Tool to monitor incoming tweets. (Geek Tool is a free utility that runs as a Preference Pane and lets you embed shell output, URLs, and more in your desktop.) I set up a new Shell Command entry, with the following command (all on one line): (tags: osx twitter geektool) [...]

By: Anthony

Anthony — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 04:05:27 +0000

I love your desktop picture!
Can you share it out?

By: hum

hum — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:46:55 +0000

Oh, I got it :D

By: hum

hum — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:09:02 +0000

@Nick – maybe just link to a screenshot of what the code should look like? I tried entering the fixes per your posts #13 and #14 and I still can’t get them to work. (Well, actually, Matt’s code worked for 10 minutes or so, but then disappeared :/ …)

By: Josh Pigford

Josh Pigford — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 06:07:24 +0000

If you'd like to post to post actual HTML then you'll need to use something like Postable to make your HTML "comment safe."

By: Nick Santilli

Nick Santilli — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 06:02:38 +0000

wow, now I’m really getting frustrated with this too…
basically, anyplace you see title, wrap it with less-than and greater-than signs, because they should be html title tags. the closing title tag /title actually looks like / because of the bash syntax. so when you see the /title, include both of those slashes when you wrap it in the less-than and greater-than signs.
[sigh] the formatting really made me screw the pooch on this one. Sorry folks.

Mine (a bit rudimentary)
curl -s -u username:password http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.rss | grep title | sed -e ‘s/title/ /’ | sed ‘s//title/ /’ | sed ‘s/ //’

Scott’s (With some added customization)
curl -s -u username:password http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.rss | grep “title” | sed -E ‘s/^[ ]+//; s/title(.+)/title/1/’ | head -n 15 | tail -n 14

Matt’s
curl -s -u username:password http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.rss | grep title | sed -e ‘s/title/ /’ | sed -e ‘s//title/ /’

By: Nick Santilli

Nick Santilli — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 05:56:07 +0000

@Mitch – snark away :)
Actually, they do work, but the ‘code’ display is being tripped up because we’re trying to reference html tags.

we’re trying to update the update to read properly… In the meantime just know that anywhere you see or , you should remove the _. Sorry for the confusion. so here are the 3 commands:

Mine (a bit rudimentary)
curl -s -u username:password http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.rss | grep title | sed -e ‘s// /’ | sed ‘s// /’ | sed ‘s/ //’

Scott’s (With some added customization)
curl -s -u username:password http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.rss | grep “” | sed -E ‘s/^[ ]+//; s/(.+)/1/’ | head -n 15 | tail -n 14

Matt’s
curl -s -u username:password http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.rss | grep title | sed -e ‘s// /’ | sed -e ‘s// /’

Hope that helps, and again, sorry for the confusion

By: Mitch

Mitch — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 04:41:01 +0000

I don’t want to sound narky, but is anyone actually *testing* the code? Seriously, none of these work for me.

By: Nick Santilli

Nick Santilli — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:17:23 +0000

Matt – nick DOT appleblog AT gmail me the code snippet you’re trying for and I’ll get the post updated to reflect the better way

thx