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02 04 2009

Making the bird tweet using python

Posted by Buzz in python

After taking another look at Python I am quickly coming to love it, as an “exercise” in re-learning python I decided to write a very simple command line “tweeter” this uses the Twitter API to update your twitter status, extending from the “update twitter in a single line”

You can grab a copy of the script from here: http://svn.saiweb.co.uk/branches/python/tweet.py

UPDATE 24/03/2011:Oauth version here

Example usage:

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./tweet.py -u username -p password -t your tweet goes here

If you want to parse the JSON data normally returned after submitting a new tweet simply add the -j flag.

If you are prompted for a username and password when running this script the username and password supplied using the -u and -p flags was incorrect.

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3 Responses to “Making the bird tweet using python”
  1. Nagios – Send alerts to twitter | Saiweb says:
    August 28, 2009 at 3:35 pm

    [...] Making the bird tweet using python or Update twitter in a single line [...]

  2. Jose says:
    April 7, 2011 at 10:41 am

    I have this error:
    IOError: (‘http error’, 401, ‘Unauthorized’, )

    Maybe twitter are continously changing the service?

  3. Buzz says:
    April 7, 2011 at 10:43 am

    @Jose, http auth is disabled, I have provided an update in the blog post for the Oauth version https://github.com/Oneiroi/nagios_addons/blob/master/twitter/nagios_bot.py

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