I wrote a python CLI program to use the mobile friendfeed publisher at https://masnun.com/ff/.
It just posts the credentials to the mobile page, then the mobile page makes the update to friendfeed.
Source: http://myfriendfeed.googlecode.com/files/friendfeed.py
In my previous post, I have published the source codes to build a CLI php app to update your twitter status. Here comes the Python version…. It’s been a pain… took me 15 long minutes to cook it… I was having trouble with the basic authorization twitter requires. I am using Python 3 and had to make the basic auth credentials encoded into binary, base64 encode the binary and then decode the returned binary back into a string before I could use it to authorize :(.
Finally, it’s done and I am very much delighted with it… It asks for your username, password and finally the status when run. Feed it the information and it’ll do the job for you…
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import sys; from urllib.request import urlopen,Request; import base64; username = input("Username: "); password = input("Password: "); url = "http://www.twitter.com/statuses/update.xml"; status = input("Enter Status: "); data ="status="+status; req = Request(url); req.data = data; req.headers['Authorization'] = 'Basic %s' % (base64.b64encode((username + ":" + password).encode())).decode(); # req.headers['User-Agent'] = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.20) Gecko/20081217 Firefox/2.0.0.20'; urlopen(req); |
Thanks to Python… Ireally love it 🙂
Here’s the source file :
<?php
$username = $argv[1];
$password = $argv[2];
$message = $argv[3];
$tweetUrl = “http://{$username}:{$password}@www.twitter.com/statuses/update.xml”;
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $tweetUrl);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 2);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, “status={$message}”);
$result = curl_exec($curl);
?>
How to Use ?
Save the file as “twitter.php”.
php twitter.php twitter_username twitter_password “Status Update !!”
NB: If you are posting a multi word status ( which has space ), don’t forget to wrap the sentence inside double quotes. Otherwise the first word of the sentence will be posted alone. The codes require cURL extension loaded.