bleeter

A nasty little twitter viewer

Author:James Rowe <jnrowe@gmail.com>
Date:2010-04-09
Copyright:GPL v3
Manual section:1
Manual group:Instant Messaging

SYNOPSIS

bleeter [option]...

DESCRIPTION

Fetches your twitter friends timeline and displays notification popups for new tweets. If your system’s notification daemon supports adding actions to the popups then you’ll be able to make a number of choices by clicking the buttons on the popup.

OPTIONS

--version show program’s version number and exit
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-t, –timeout n
timeout for notification popups in seconds
-f, –frequency n
update frequency in in seconds
-g, --get-token
 generate a new OAuth token for twitter
--secure use SSL to connect to twitter
--no-secure don’t use SSL to connect to twitter
-s, –stealth user
users to watch without following(comma separated)
--no-stealth don’t check stealth users for updates
-i, –ignore word
keywords to ignore in tweets(comma separated)
--no-ignore don’t test for ignore keywords
--no-tray disable the system tray icon
-e, --expand expand links in tweets
--no-expand don’t expand links in tweets
-m, --mobile open links in lighter mobile versions
--no-mobile don’t open links in lighter mobile versions
–map-provider site
open geo links using specified site
–count n
maximum number of timeline tweets to fetch(max 200)

–stealth-count n

maximum number of stealth tweets to fetch

–search-count n

maximum number of tweets to fetch for searches

–list-count n

maximum number of tweets to fetch for lists
--lists fetch user’s lists
--no-lists don’t fetch user’s lists
--searches fetch user’s saved searches
--no-searches don’t fetch user’s saved searches
--no-cache don’t cache twitter communications
-v, --verbose produce verbose output
-q, --quiet output only results and errors

CONFIGURATION FILE

The configuration file, ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-~/.config}/bleeter/config.ini, is a simple INI format file for storing the command line options. For example:

frequency = 600
timeout = 10
stealth = unfolloweduser

With the above configuration file twitter will be checked every ten minutes for updates, new tweets will be shown for 10 seconds and unfolloweduser will be watched for updates.

BUGS

None known.

AUTHOR

Written by James Rowe

RESOURCES

Home page: http://github.com/JNRowe/bleeter

COPYING

Copyright © 2010-2011 James Rowe.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

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