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Uses old Rust 2015
0.1.11 | Mar 22, 2017 |
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0.1.10 | Mar 22, 2017 |
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Command Line Interface Tweeter (rust version)
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The rust version of this tool is somewhat faster than its haskell counterpart, but the haskell one has a few more features.
Reasons to use clit-rs:
- Faster than other tools (t, rainbowstream ,clit ,oysttyer)
- Lightweight (5MB, low CPU/memory usage)
- Unobtrusive
- Support for colored output.
- Can be used in scripts
- You know rust and like being able to extend your tools.
- You want something that can be called from vim
- You want a twitter library for rust.
- BSD3 licensed
Reasons not to use clit-rs:
- Many features are still in development
- Fewer features than rainbowstream, t, or oysttyer
- You want to extend your tools in haskell
- You want "twitter in a terminal" that rainbowtools or oysttyer provides.
Config
Generate a token to authorize access to your twitter account by following the guide here
Then place your API keys and OAuth tokens in a file (default is $HOME/.cred
), separated by a line break:
api-key: API_KEY_HERE
api-sec: API_SECRET_HERE
tok: OAUTH_TOKEN_HERE
tok-sec: TOKEN_SECRET_HERE
Note that the labels must in the correct order, and separated from the keys with whitespace.
Installation
If you're on Linux/Windows the best way is probably to download the binaries from the releases page here.
Otherwise, you'll have to build from source. To build from source, install cargo via rustup; on unix systems this is as simple as
curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh
Then type cargo install clit-rs
.
Use
View Profiles
To get your profile, simply type:
$ tw user
To view a user's profile, type e.g.
$ tw user pinepapplesmear
If you have any problems along the way:
$ tw help
Sending tweets
$ tw send "YOUR_TWEET_TEXT"
Viewing your timeline
You can also use
$ tw view
to view your own timeline.
Features
- tweet
- view timeline
- view user profiles
- output with id of tweet
- delete tweet
- retweet
- reply to tweet
- display quoted tweets alongside
Coloring
clit-rs respects the CLICOLOR behavior defined here. If you wish to disable colorization,
$ export CLICOLOR=0
Library
A library is included. It's fairly easy to use once you have the credentials set up, with three functions: one to post a status, one to get your timeline, and one to get a user profile.
Haskell
There is a haskell version of this, with a binary and a library, available here. The haskell library is more complete.
Dependencies
~13–23MB
~360K SLoC