Usage

bleeter will seek authorisation when initially run. As twitter uses OAuth this process is a little more cumbersome than it should be.

• An authentication link will be opened in your default browser, allowing you to sign in to twitter and declare that you want bleeter to have access to your account.
• A small dialog window will pop up where you can enter the PIN given to you by twitter.

If you wish to create a new authentication token, or need to regenerate it, you can be doing one of the following:

$ bleeter --get-token
$ rm ${XDG_DATA_HOME:-~/.local}/bleeter/oauth_token

Options

--version

show program’s version number and exit

-h, --help

show this help message and exit

-t <n>, --timeout=<n>

timeout for notification popups in seconds

-f <n>, --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 ewornj, --stealth=ewornj

users to watch without following(comma separated)

--no-stealth

don’t check stealth users for updates

-i "#nowplaying", --ignore "#nowplaying"

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 "google"

open geo links using specified site

--count

maximum number of timeline tweets to fetch(max 200)

--stealth-count

maximum number of stealth tweets to fetch

--search-count

maximum number of tweets to fetch for searches

--list-count

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