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post tweets from terminal
CLI tool to interact with x (twitter) from terminal
Table of Contents
- Usage
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Installation
- Linux
- Windows
- Mac
- Authentication
Usage
Main Usage
- post tweets from terminal like this
x "first tweet from terminal!"
Full Docs
interact with x (twitter) from terminal.
USAGE
x <command>
Main usage (posting a tweet)
x <tweet-text>
Examples:
one word tweet x hi
multiple words tweet x "hi from terminal"
with optional arg: x -t "hi there"
extended optional arg: x --tweet "hi x"
Commands
-h show this help
auth start authorizing your X account
auth --url get auth url if it didn't open browser after running 'x auth'
auth -v verify authorization after running 'x auth'
-t "text" post a tweet
-v show version
-c clear authorized account
Installation
Linux
- download the verion that matches computer's operating system from latest release
- open a terminal in the directory where the file was downloaded
- for example assume the file name is
x_Linux_x86_64.tar.gz
- remove any previous downloaded version of x
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/x
- run the following command to extract the file
sudo tar -C /usr/local -xzf x_Linux_x86_64.tar.gz
- Add
/usr/local/x
to the PATH environment variable - Do this by adding the following line to your $HOME/.profile or /etc/profile (for a system-wide installation):
# opening the file
nano $HOME/.profile
# and add this line at the end of the file
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/x
- run the following command to update the current session
source $HOME/.profile
- verify the installation by running the following command
x version
- if the installation was successful, you should see the version of x that was installed
Windows
- download the verion that matches your archeticture from latest release
- extract the file and get the
x.exe
file and place it in a directory that is in your PATH environment variable. a common one isC:\Windows\system32
- open a terminal and run
x --version
to verify the installation - if the installation was successful, you should see the version of x that was installed
Mac
- idk never used it before. but I have darwin binaries in the latest release so you can try it out
Authentication
- run
x auth
- an auth url will be opened in your browser, if it doesn't run
x auth --url
to get the url - verify
X CLI
in the opened twitter page - after authorizing the app return to the terminal and run
x auth -v
Note: running x auth -v
windows might flag the tool as a threat this is because it reads a config file that was previously generated here to identify the user by a random string that's unique for your device. you can check the function here. so if the threat shows up, allow it and continue.
- if the authorization was successful, you should see a
verified
message - now you can post tweets using
x -t "tweet text"
- if anything went wrong run
x -c
to clear any settings and start over - if the problem persists, kindly open an issue here and describe the problem and I'll be happy to help!
Posting tweets
x -t "tweet text"
or x --tweet "tweet text"