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Get Twitter timeline from the CLI

Posted in Play on 9 September 2009 | Comments?
Tags: bash, cli, gmail, linux, twitter

We already know how to update Twitter from the command line. To get your and your friends’ timeline from the CLI, use the following one-liner:

curl -u username --silent "https://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.rss" | perl -ne 'print "$2\n" if /< (description)>(.*)< \/\1>/;'

Using the same method, you can also get unread Gmail inbox messages (via commandlinefu.com).

Read more:

• Twitter updates, via CLI
• New from GMail: ‘Web clips’
• Twitter status RSS broken?
• Gmail with Mutt
• GMail on IMAP

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