Flexion.Org Blog » status http://blog.flexion.org Bad grammar and typos for total strangers Tue, 15 May 2012 10:12:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Identi.ca status updates from the shell http://blog.flexion.org/2009/01/23/identica-status-updates-shell/ http://blog.flexion.org/2009/01/23/identica-status-updates-shell/#comments Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:42:03 +0000 Martin http://blog.flexion.org/?p=192

I am getting to like this micro blogging thing and having figured out how to update Twitter status via the shell I thought I do the same for Identi.ca. The solution is practically identi.cal, see what I did there ;-) 

curl -u username:password -d status="Your message here" -k https://identi.ca/api/statuses/update.xml
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I updated my wiki script (Yawki) earlier, it now produces an RSS 2.0 feed and notifies Twitter when I add or edit a wiki page.

Yawki is a 30k shell script so I needed to find I way to notify Twitter via the shell. A little Googling later and I had the answer :-) 

curl -u yourusername:yourpassword -d status="Your Message Here" -k https://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml

You will receive a response containing the XML coding for your post which acts as a confirmation that your post was submitted. So, you might want to append…

>& /dev/null

…so you can discard the output. If you want to be fancy, check $? to see whether it’s nonzero ;-)

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