<refnamediv>
<refname>bti</refname>
- <refpurpose>send a tweet to twitter.com from the command line</refpurpose>
+ <refpurpose>send a tweet to twitter.com or identi.ca from the command line</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<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>--config CONFIGFILE</option></arg>
+ <arg><option>--replyto ID</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>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsect1><title>DESCRIPTION</title>
- <para>bti sends a twitter message to twitter.com.
+ <para>bti sends a tweet message to twitter.com or identi.ca.
</para>
</refsect1>
<term><option>--account account</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
- Specify the twitter.com account name.
+ Specify the twitter.com or identi.ca account name.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<term><option>--password password</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
- Specify the password of your twitter.com account.
+ Specify the password of your twitter.com or identi.ca account.
+ </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. Default is "update".
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--user screenname</option></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Specify the user whose messages you want to see when the
+ action is "user".
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--host HOST_NAME</option></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <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.
+
+ 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>--proxy PROXY:PORT</option></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Specify a http proxy value. This is not a required option, and
+ only needed by systems that are behind a http proxy.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ If --proxy is not specified but the environment variable
+ 'http_proxy' is set the latter will be used.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--logfile LOGFILE</option></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Specify a logfile for bti to write status messages to. LOGFILE
+ is in relation to the user's home directory, not an absolute
+ path to a file.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--config CONFIGFILE</option></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Specify a config file for bti to read from. By default, bti
+ looks in the ~/.bti file for config values. This default
+ location can be overridden by setting a specific file with this
+ option.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--replyto ID</option></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Status ID of a single post to which you want to create a threaded
+ reply to.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ For twitter, this is ignored unless the message starts with the
+ @name of the owner of the post with the status ID.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ For status.net, this can link any two messages into context with
+ each other. Status.net will also link a message that contains an
+ @name without this without regard to context.
+ </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>
<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. Print status IDs and timestamps.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--bash</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add the working directory and a '$' in the twitter message to
+ Add the working directory and a '$' in the tweet message to
help specify it is coming from a command line. Don't put the
- working directory and the '$' in the twitter message.
+ working directory and the '$' in the tweet message.
</para>
+ <para>
+ This mode also does not report back any errors that might have
+ happened when sending the message, and it sends it in the
+ background, returning immediately, allowing the process to
+ continue on.
+ </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<refsect1>
<title>DESCRIPTION</title>
<para>
- bti provides an easy way to send twitter messages direct from the
+ bti provides an easy way to send tweet messages direct from the
command line or any script. It reads the message on standard
input and uses the account and password settings either from the
command line options, or from a config file, to send the message
out.
</para>
<para>
- It's primary focus is to allow you to log everything that you
+ Its primary focus is to allow you to log everything that you
type into a bash shell, in a crazy, "this is what I'm doing right
now!" type of way, letting the world follow along with you
constant moving between directories and refreshing your email
<para>
The account and password can be stored in a configuration file
in the users home directory in a file named
- <filename>.bti</filename> The structure of this file is as
+ <filename>.bti</filename>. The structure of this file is as
follows:
</para>
<variablelist>
<term><option>account</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
- The twitter.com account name you wish to use to send this
+ The twitter.com or identi.ca account name you wish to use to send this
message with.
</para>
</listitem>
<term><option>password</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
- The twitter.com password for the account you wish to use
+ The twitter.com or identi.ca password for the account you wish to use
to send this message with.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
+ <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>
+ 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>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>proxy</option></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The http proxy needed to send data out to the Internet.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>logfile</option></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The logfile name for bti to write what happened to.
+ This file is relative to the user's home directory. If this
+ file is not specified here or on the command line, no logging
+ will be written to the disk.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>replyto</option></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The status ID to which all notices will be linked to.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ There is no sane reason for a need to have this set in a
+ config file. One such reason is to have all your messages
+ as children to a particular status.
+ </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>
+ <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
the structure of the file if you need an example to work off of.
</para>
+ <para>
+ Configuration options have the following priority:
+ </para>
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term></term>
+ <listitem><para>command line option</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term></term>
+ <listitem><para>config file option</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term></term>
+ <listitem><para>environment variables</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ <para>
+ For example, command line options always override any config file
+ option, or any environment variables. Unless a config file is
+ specified by the command line. At that point, the new config file is
+ read, and any previous options set by a command line option, would be
+ overridden.
+ </para>
</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>
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