X-Git-Url: https://git.toastfreeware.priv.at/gregoa/bti.git/blobdiff_plain/fe5221b8b0ecac323da496be58b5b60297f34f11..9b88bdb4ba1345728b0e27cdd40e6c861f76679c:/README diff --git a/README b/README index b90bd10..1c5022f 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ -bti - bash twitter ididocy +bti - bash twitter/identi.ca ididocy -Allows you to pipe your bash input to twitter in an easy and fast manner -to annoy the whole world. +Allows you to pipe your bash input to twitter or identi.ca in an easy +and fast manner to annoy the whole world. See the man page bti.1 for how to use it and more information. @@ -11,9 +11,33 @@ data to the world with it. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK! Any questions, contact Greg Kroah-Hartman or @gregkh -on twitter. +on twitter or identi.ca. bti is developed using git and the tree can be found at: git://github.com/gregkh/bti.git and browsed at: http://github.com/gregkh/bti/ + + +About OAuth configuration + +If you want to use an OAuth-enabled service (like twitter), you should +configure bti to use the consumer key and secret shipped with the source +code (check the oath.keys file). + +For example, you should add the following two lines to your ~/.bti +configuration file: + +---8<------------------- +# Consumer key +consumer_key=cZy8DdioswAfu3LJYg6E2w + +# Consumer secret +consumer_secret=fnIGGU0T12mMWKjmThUdSeKN32NLWfmnwapwubVQ +---8<------------------- + +The next time that you run bti, you will be told to visit an URL that +will provide you a PIN number. You should then input that number in the +bti prompt, and you will be given two new configuration values +(access_token_secret and access_token_key) that you need to add to your +bti configuration file to authenticate requests from bti.