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Twirrsi :: Twittering away from irssi.

17 December 2008 Michiel Leave a comment Go to comments

I have now written a more extensive howto on this subject, what to install and how. You can read it all on this page.

A while ago, I wrote that I wanted to be able to write tweets from my favourite irc client (aka irssi). Back then I actually had a bit of a look around and trying to find something that could remotely work (and preferably also worked with perl [1])

Tonight, while being my usual insomniac self I decided to have another look on the net: And a good thing too, as this time around after applying some google-fu, I discovered “Twirssi“

After downloading the script and installing it, the fun really started and I started to have a honest amount of geeking about having to hunt down and write a bunch of SlackBuild scripts for the various perl-modules.

dependency-tree for twirssi.pl [*]

  • Net::Twitter
  • Test::Exception
    • Sub::Uplevel
  • WWW::Shorten::TinyURL
  • LWP::UserAgent
    • HTML::Entities
  • JSON::Any
    • JSON
      • JSON::XS
    • JSON::DWID
    • JSON::Syck

So what is left to do. Due to time constraints (a.k.a head dunking on keyboard syndrome seems to be creeping up on me, and I already start to do stuff double).

I still need to write the SlackBuild for WWW::Shorten::TinyURL and go through my build scripts and make sure that for all the scripts the CFLAGS and SLKCFLAGS are correctly set in the script. Then find a place to actually publish these things [2]. Either they will go up on SlackBuilds.org or I’ll host them on buhkit.

Here you can see a screen shot of twirssi in action. (Running on irssi / screen on a Slackware 12.2 box).

First impressions that twirssi seems to be working well and could actually be rather useful. According to the webpage there should be some sort of integration / automation possible with bitlbee. :)

[1] – Especially since all irssi plugins are written in Perl.
[2] – IF you are interested in twirssi on Slackware, and want the build scripts, give me a shout and I’ll post them.

[*] – Builds highlighted in blue are available from SlackBuilds.org.

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  1. zigdon
    17 December 2008 at 4:20 pm | #1
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    Glad you got it working! If you post the build script, I’d be happy to post it on the Twirssi page.

    Side note – WWW::Shorten isn’t required, it’s only used if it’s present. 2nd note – if you’re using Net::Twitter 1.17, you need to make sure to grab the patch I posted for it, otherwise you’ll see the same replies repeating every 5 minutes.

    @zigdon

  2. Michiel
    17 December 2008 at 4:52 pm | #2
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    I know it wasn’t required, I got it working last night without WWW::Shorten, although twirssi threw up a warning.

    I am OCPD enough that I wanted to chase down this dependency as well.

    As for Net::Twitter, I saw the note regarding 1.17, but when I looked at CPAN, I saw they had 1.20, So I went with that :)

    Great work :)

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