In Ubuntu, here's how to install cURL:
- Open a terminal
- Type "sudo apt-get install curl" (without the quotes)
- Enter your root password when prompted
It's up to you to figure out why you would actually want to do this, but now you can.
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3-08-2008 @ 7:51AM
pierfrancesco99 said...
How can install cURL and use in Windows XP ?
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3-08-2008 @ 7:54AM
Brad Linder said...
Try downloading cURL from this link:
http://curl.haxx.se/dlwiz/?type=bin&os=Win32&flav=-&ver=2000%2FXP
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3-08-2008 @ 7:56AM
RazorD said...
I wrote a perl script to do this too, its open source on google code (http://code.google.com/p/gmedtwitpost/)
you setup the username and password in the script and then just run 'gmedtwitpost.pl new_status' and it'll update.
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3-08-2008 @ 12:28PM
Saul said...
I blogged about doing this from the shell on the mac - using launchbar - it's darm easy, and works great
http://saulrosenbaum.com/blog/2007/10/16/the-raw-power-of-launchbar-shell/
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3-08-2008 @ 12:57PM
Grant Robertson said...
That is totally hot. Rawk!
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3-09-2008 @ 8:21AM
Alex Gretlein said...
Of course you would want to alias this with something like:
alias twit='curl -u yourusername:yourpassword -d status="$1" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml'
(preferably in your .bashrc or the like) and then you could just do "twit Message".
I'm not sure if KDE's Katapult or GNOME's Deskbar Applet recognize your Bash aliases. If they do, then you could use this to twit from either. (In Katapult type "exec" first.) If they don't, then just use Saul's tip and save it as a script in your path, and you'll be good to go in either. (There are also several Twitter plugins for Deskbar. I'm not sure if they do anything more than send messages, for which it seems curl is perfect.)
Lastly, you don't need to download curl, wget (installed by default on many *nix systems) should be fine:
wget -O - --user=USER --password=PASSWORD --post-data='status="MESSAGE"' http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml
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3-12-2008 @ 10:15PM
arrohwany said...
Very great idea :0
i like it...
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