<command>bti</command>
<arg><option>--account account</option></arg>
<arg><option>--password password</option></arg>
+ <arg><option>--action action</option></arg>
+ <arg><option>--user screenname</option></arg>
<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>--version</option></arg>
<arg><option>--help</option></arg>
</cmdsynopsis>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--action action</option></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Specify the action which you want to perform. Valid options
+ are "update" to send a message, "friends" to see your friends
+ timeline, "public" to track public timeline, "replies" to see
+ replies to your messages and "user" to see a specific user's
+ timeline.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--user screenname</option></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Specify the user you want to see his/her messages while the
+ action is "user".
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--host HOST_NAME</option></term>
<listitem>
</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>--bash</option></term>
<listitem>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--action action</option></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Specify the action which you want to perform. Valid options
+ are "update" to send a message, "friends" to see your friends
+ timeline, "public" to track public timeline, "replies" to see
+ replies to your messages and "user" to see a specific user's
+ timeline.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--user screenname</option></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Specify the user you want to see his/her messages while the
+ action is "user".
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>host</option></term>
<listitem>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <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>
</variablelist>
<para>
There is an example config file called