<arg><option>--host HOST_NAME</option></arg>
<arg><option>--proxy PROXY:PORT</option></arg>
<arg><option>--logfile LOGFILE</option></arg>
+ <arg><option>--page PAGENUMBER</option></arg>
<arg><option>--bash</option></arg>
+ <arg><option>--shrink-urls</option></arg>
<arg><option>--debug</option></arg>
+ <arg><option>--dry-run</option></arg>
+ <arg><option>--verbose</option></arg>
<arg><option>--version</option></arg>
<arg><option>--help</option></arg>
</cmdsynopsis>
<para>
Specify the host which you want to send your message to. Valid
options are "twitter" to send to twitter.com and "identica" to
- send to identi.ca.
+ send to identi.ca.
+
+ If you want to send the message to a custom laconi.ca installation,
+ you should specify the API URI. For example identi.ca's URI is:
+ https://identi.ca/api/statuses
</para>
<para>
If no host is specified, the default is to send to twitter.com.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--shrink-urls</option></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Scans the tweet text for valid URL patterns and passes each
+ through the supplied bti-shrink-urls script. The script will
+ pass the URL to a web service that shrinks the URLs, making it
+ more suitable for micro-blogging.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Currently, only http://2tu.us/ is used as a URL shrinking service.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--debug</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>Print a whole bunch of debugging messages to stdout.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--page PAGENUMBER</option></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ When the action is to retrieve updates, it usually retrieves
+ only one page. If this option is used, the page number can be
+ specified.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--dry-run</option></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Performs all steps that would normally be done for a given
+ action, but will not connect to the service to post or retrieve data.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--verbose</option></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Verbose mode
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--bash</option></term>
<listitem>
The host you want to use to send the message to. Valid
options are either "twitter" or "identica" to send to
twitter.com or identi.ca respectively.
+
+ If you want to send the message to a custom laconi.ca installation,
+ you should specify the API URI. For example identi.ca's URI is:
+ https://identi.ca/api/statuses.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>shrink-urls</option></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Setting this variable to 'true' or 'yes' will enable the URL
+ shrinking feature. This is equivalent to using the
+ --shrink-urls option.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>verbose</option></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Setting this variable to 'true' or 'yes' will enable the
+ verbose mode.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
<para>
There is an example config file called
<filename>bti.example</filename> in the source tree that shows
</refsect1>
<refsect1><title>AUTHOR</title>
- <para>Written by Greg Kroah-Hartman <email>greg@kroah.com</email>.</para>
+ <para>Written by Greg Kroah-Hartman <<email>greg@kroah.com</email>> and Amir Mohammad Saied <<email>amirsaied@gmail.com</email>>.</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>