Earthquake
Terminal-based Twitter Client with Streaming API support. Only supports Ruby 1.9.
Homepage: https://github.com/jugyo/earthquake
Twitter: http://twitter.com/earthquakegem
Changelog'd: earthquake: Twitter terminal client with streaming API support
Demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2KtBGrIe5c
Slide: http://www.slideshare.net/jugyo/earthquakegem
We need patches that fix the english of the documentation!
Features
- Use Twitter entirely in your Terminal.
- Receive data in real time with Streaming API.
- Easily extend using Ruby.
Install
You'll need openssl and readline support with your 1.9.2. If you are using rvm you can run:
$ rvm pkg install openssl
$ rvm pkg install readline
$ rvm remove 1.9.2
$ rvm install 1.9.2 --with-openssl-dir=$HOME/.rvm/usr \
--with-readline-dir=$HOME/.rvm/usr
Then install the gem:
$ gem install earthquake
Ubuntu: EventMachine needs the package libssl-dev.
$ sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
Usage
Launch
$ earthquake
Commands
Tweet
⚡ Hello World!
Show
⚡ $xx
$xx is the alias of tweet id.
Reply
⚡ $xx hi!
Delete
⚡ :delete $xx
Retweet
⚡ :retweet $xx
Timeline
⚡ :recent
⚡ :recent jugyo
Lists
⚡ :recent yugui/ruby-committers
Search
⚡ :search #ruby
Eval
⚡ :eval Time.now
Exit
⚡ :exit
Reconnect
⚡ :reconnect
Restart
⚡ :restart
Threads
⚡ :thread $xx
Install Plugins
⚡ :plugin_install https://gist.github.com/899506
Alias
⚡ :alias :rt :retweet
Tweet Ascii Art
⚡ :update[ENTER]
[input EOF (e.g. Ctrl+D) at the last]
⚡
⚡
⚡
⚡
^D
View Ascii Art
# permanently
⚡ :eval config[:raw_text] = true
# temporarily(with :status, :recent or :thread etc...)
⚡ :aa :status $aa
Stream Filter Tracking
# keywords
⚡ :filter keyword earthquakegem twitter
# users
⚡ :filter user jugyo matsuu
# return to normal user stream
⚡ :filter off
Show config
# All config
⚡ :config
# config for :key
⚡ :config key
Set config
# set config for :key to (evaluated) value
⚡ :config key 1 + 1
{
:key => 2
}
⚡ :config key {foo: 1, bar: 2}
{
:key => {
:foo => 1,
:bar => 2
}
}
# merge new config if both are Hash
⚡ :config key {bar: 3}
{
:key => {
:foo => 1,
:bar => 3
}
}
And more!
Configuration
The default earthquake directory is ~/.earthquake.
The config file is ~/.earthquake/config.
Changing the earthquake directory
You can change the directory at launch by entering a directory as an argument. For example:
$ earthquake ~/.earthquake_foo
Changing the colors for user name
# ~/.earthquake/config
# For example, to exclude blue:
Earthquake.config[:colors] = (31..36).to_a - [34]
Changing the color scheme
# ~/.earthquake/config
Earthquake.config[:color] = {
:info => 34,
:notice => 41,
:event => 46,
:url => [4, 34]
}
Tracking specified keywords
# ~/.earthquake/config
Earthquake.config[:api] = {
:method => 'POST',
:host => 'stream.twitter.com',
:path => '/1/statuses/filter.json',
:ssl => true,
:filters => %w(Twitter Earthquake)
}
Tracking specified users
# ~/.earthquake/config
Earthquake.config[:api] = {
:method => 'POST',
:host => 'stream.twitter.com',
:path => '/1/statuses/filter.json',
:ssl => true,
:params => {
:follow => '6253282,183709371' # @twitterapi @sitestreams
}
}
Defining aliases
# ~/.earthquake/config
Earthquake.alias_command :rt, :retweet
Default confirmation type
# ~/.earthquake/config
Earthquake.config[:confirm_type] = :n
HTTP proxy support
Please set environment variable http_proxy if you want earthquake to use an http proxy.
Desktop Notifications
To enable desktop notifications, install one of the following:
- ruby-growl (gem install ruby-growl)
- growlnotify (http://growl.info/extras.php#growlnotify)
- notify-send (sudo aptitude install libnotify-bin)
- libnotify (https://github.com/splattael/libnotify)
Call Earthquake.notify for desktop notification. You can try it by using the :eval command:
⚡ :eval notify 'Hello World!'
Plugins
See https://github.com/jugyo/earthquake/wiki
Making Plugins
~/.earthquake/plugin is the directory for plugins. At launch, Earthquake tries to load files under this directory. The block that is specified for Earthquake.init will be reloaded at any command line input.
Defining your commands
A command named 'foo':
Earthquake.init do
command :foo do
puts "foo!"
end
end
Handling the command args:
Earthquake.init do
command :hi do |m|
puts "Hi #{m[1]}!"
end
end
'm' is a http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/MatchData.html object.
Using regexp:
Earthquake.init do
# Usage: :add 10 20
command %r|^:add (\d+)\s+(\d+)|, :as => :add do |m|
puts m[1].to_i + m[2].to_i
end
end
Handling outputs
Keyword notifier:
Earthquake.init do
output do |item|
next unless item["_stream"]
if item["text"] =~ /ruby/i
notify "#{item["user"]["screen_name"]}: #{item["text"]}"
end
end
end
Favorite notifier:
Earthquake.init do
output do |item|
case item["event"]
when "favorite"
notify "[favorite] #{item["source"]["screen_name"]} => #{item["target"]["screen_name"]} : #{item["target_object"]["text"]}"
end
end
end
Defining filters for output
Filtering by keywords
Earthquake.init do
output_filter do |item|
if item["_stream"] && item["text"]
item["text"] =~ /ruby/i
else
true
end
end
end
Replacing the output for tweets
Earthquake.init do
output :tweet do |item|
next unless item["text"]
name = item["user"]["screen_name"]
puts "#{name.c(color_of(name))}: foo"
end
end
Defining completion
Earthquake.init do
completion do |text|
['jugyo', 'earthquake', '#eqrb'].grep(/^#{Regexp.quote(text)}/)
end
end
TODO
- mark my tweet
- Earthquake should parse ARGV
- ruby1.9nize
- guideline for plugin
- deal proxy
- spec
Copyright
Copyright (c) 2011 jugyo. See LICENSE.txt for further details.