chirpchirp

Twitter cli via app authentication.

About

Straightforward way of sending tweets, supporting multiline messages. Written natively in TypeScript.

Prerequisites

• Node.js version 10 or higher

Installation

npm install chirpchirp --global

Usage

1. Create a twitter app and generate keys
2. Set the environmental variables

   export TWITTER_API_KEY="TWITTER_API_KEY"
   export TWITTER_API_SECRET_KEY="TWITTER_API_SECRET_KEY"
   export TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN="TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN"
   export TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET="TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET"

3. Tweet

   chirpchirp send --message <message>

Example

chirpchirp send --message "Hello, World!"

Advanced usage

Command | Explanation --- | --- chirpchirp send --message <message> --twitter-api-key "TWITTER_API_KEY" --twitter-api-secret-key "TWITTER_API_SECRET_KEY" --twitter-access-token "TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN" --twitter-access-token-secret "TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET" | Instead of using the environmental variables npx chirpchirp send --message <message> | Running without installation chirpchirp --help | To get all the available options

Multiline messages for nonglobal installation

$Message = "Beavers
Squirrels
Bears"

node node_modules/chirpchirp/build/release/index.js send --message $Message

Spaces and multiline support

+ : Working

= : Non applicable

! : Spaces work, multiline doesn't (workaround above)

- : Not working (workaround above)

Command used | Global | Local| Not installed --- | --- | --- | ---| chirpchirp | + | = | = chirpchirp (from script) | ! | ! | = npx chirpchirp | - | - | ! npx chirpchirp (from script) | - | - | ! node index.js | + | + | =