Get Twitter timeline from the CLI

We already know how to update Twitter from the command line. To get your and your friends' timeline from the CLI, use the following one-liner:

curl -u username --silent "https://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.rss" | perl -ne 'print "$2\n" if /< (description)>(.*)< \/\1>/;'

Using the same method, you can also get unread Gmail inbox messages (via commandlinefu.com).

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Pull files off Android phone

Image
This assumes you have Android Debug Bridge (ADB) installed. This will pull all files from a directory in an Android phone. cd /path/to/destination/directory adb pull /path/to/source . As Julian says, "Easy-peasy, lemon squeezy." (I use this, by the way, since the Nexus 5 and OS X Mavericks refuse to work together in USB mode.)
Read more