Posts Tagged ‘twitter’

Follow my TiVo on Twitter

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

The other night my friend Bob mentioned somebody had set up a Twitter account for their TiVo. After thinking about it for a second I said something like “that’s almost trivial”.

Naturally I had to see if it really was trivial, which in fact it turned out to be. @mrbalkytivo is busier than I am.

Put tweetTivo.php someplace to be called by cron.

class_tivo_xml.php is not written by me and is required. Google it up. Figuring out how to get the XML info from the TiVo is left as an exercise for the reader.

The script will tweet about any new recording that starts, including TiVo suggestions, which are not always reflective of my taste, but then again, neither are many of MrsBalky’s choices. I thought about enhancing the script to skip suggestions, but grew bored and drifted away.

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TwitPic upload hack

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

Some Twitter users have been using TwitPic to link photos to tweets. I, on the other hand, have been using Flickr and Snipr. It’s a PITA, so I’m giving TwitPic a whirl. Sadly, Digsby, does not support TwitPic, and I’m not installing yet another app.

TwitPic has an API, so I rolled my own simple uploader with cygwin and curl. There’s no doubt in my mind that I’ve reinvented the wheel here…

Standard disclaimer applies: this is quick n’ dirty(tm):

#!/bin/bash

# curl executable.  I'm a PC.
CURL=C:/cygwin/bin/curl

# The upload script that will accept the data
UPLOAD_URL=http://twitpic.com/api/uploadAndPost

# Snag stuff off the command line
TWITTER_USER=$1
TWITTER_PW=$2
PHOTO=`cygpath -m "$3"`
TWEET_MSG=$4

# Prompt for message if it's not given
if [ "$TWEET_MSG" = "" ]; then
   read -p "Tweet msg: " TWEET_MSG
fi

# Go
echo Uploading...
$CURL \
  --form username=$TWITTER_USER \
  --form password=$TWITTER_PW \
  --form media=@"$PHOTO" \
  --form message="$TWEET_MSG" $UPLOAD_URL

# Wait for user to read result message
echo
read -p "Press <enter> to continue" bogus

Create a desktop shortcut with uid and password:

C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe ~/twitpic.sh --userid-- --password--

Now just drag and drop the photo onto the desktop shortcut.

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