Tweeting through terminal

[gauthamnagpur18]

This is a short tutorial explaining how to post to Twitter using command-line in Linux, without needing to even open up your web browser.

First, install the curl package:

sudo apt-get install curl

Next, create a script anywhere in your $PATH, for example twitter.sh inside ~/bin, where ~ is your home directory (make sure ~/bin is included in your $PATHvariable, in case echo $PATH doesn't return it, edit~/.bashrc and add a line like this: export PATH=/home/USER/bin/:$PATH).

The script twitter.sh should contain the following:

#!/bin/bash
curl -u USERASS -d status="$*" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml > /dev/null
echo "Message sent!"

Replace USER and PASS with your Twitter username and password, and then make the script executable:

chmod 755 ~/bin/twitter.sh

And now test it:

twitter.sh Hello, world! This is a test.

So just use it as:

twitter.sh YOUR MESSAGE

thanks to linuxtree

[Chiapo]

May I suggest that code which is to be typed into terminal or used in a script be placed within CODE brackets, thus avoiding the "smiley" inclusion?

As your post reads now, one must decipher the ascii text for the particular smiley which appears within the tutorial in order to actually get what you're trying to relate.

Great concept!.

[vehka]

Cool. Now, how to modify the script so that the tweet shows it originated from "command line"? =)

[derrick81787]

That's cool. Unfortunately, your USER: and then PASS was interpreted as USER: smiley and then censored. Haha!

[mantorpcity]

Works, thanks for the info.

[mistrynitesh]

any way to do this after the change in authorisation mechanism at twitter?

[hocka]

this doesnt work anymore after OAUTH system... do u have another solution?

[mistrynitesh]

currently I am using 'twidge' which is available in the karmic, maverick and natty repos.

[hocka]

i want to learn the way of sending tweet by using bash script? can anyone help about this?