http://snippets.dzone.com/posts Sun, 18 May 2008 01:18:46 GMT DZone Snippets: gedit code http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/5265 The following instructions make it easy to post to Twitter and Jaiku from the command line. The instructions were copied from the article <a href="http://snipr.com/22b38">"Ubuntu Unleashed: Howto Twitter From the Command Line in Ubuntu!"</a> [ubuntu-unleashed.com] and modified to post via Rorbuilder's ProjectX API. <br /> <br /><code>sudo apt-get install curl</code> <br /><code>sudo gedit /usr/bin/jaitwit</code> <br />Now Paste this in gEdit and simply replace "YourUsername" with your username and "YourPassword" with your twitter passwd, then replace the Jaiku variables (YourUsername, YourPassword, YourCity, YourAccessKey) and ctrl-s to save, then alt-F4 to exit! <br /><code> <br />curl http://rorbuilder.info/api/projectx.cgi?xml_project=%3Cproject%20name=%22micro_blog%22%3E%3Cmethods%3E%3Cmethod%20name=%22post2jaiku%22%3E%3Cparams%3E%3Cparam%20var=%22user%22%20val=%22YourUsername%22/%3E%3Cparam%20var=%22msg%22%20val=%22`echo $@|tr ' ' '+'`%22/%3E%3Cparam%20var=%22location%22%20val=%22YourCity%22/%3E%3Cparam%20var=%22apikey%22%20val=%22YourAccessKey%22/%3E%3C/params%3E%3C/method%3E%3Cmethod%20name=%22post2twitter%22%3E%3Cparams%3E%3Cparam%20var=%22user%22%20val=%22YourUsername%22/%3E%3Cparam%20var=%22msg%22%20val=%22`echo $@|tr ' ' '+'`%22/%3E%3Cparam%20var=%22password%22%20val=%22YourPassword%22/%3E%3C/params%3E%3C/method%3E%3C/methods%3E%3C/project%3E -o /dev/null <br />echo Message Sent! <br /></code> <br />Then chmod for exec privileges: <br /><code>chmod +x /usr/bin/jaitwit</code> <br />Then from the CLI type jaitwit followed by your message. <br /><code>jaitwit "message here without the quotes"</code> Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:28:00 GMT http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/5265 jrobertson (James Robertson)