Terminal-based Twitter Client. Realtime tweetstream, compose, search , favorite … and much more fun directly from terminal.
This package is built on the top of Python Twitter Tool and Twitter API, can run on Python 2.7.x and 3.x .
Screencast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tykCvPMJq8s
Screenshot: (click to see)
You will need Python and pip (2.7.x or 3.x).
sudo pip install rainbowstream
# Python 3 users: sudo pip3 install rainbowstream
Use virtualenv
virtualenv venv
# Python 3 users : use -p to specify your Python 3 localtion as below
# virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python3 venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install rainbowstream
Just type
rainbowstream
and see your stream.
I shipped a feature which can display tweet's images directly on terminal. You can try it with:
rainbowstream -iot # Or rainbowstream --image-on-term
In the first time you will be asked for authorization of Rainbow Stream app at Twitter. Just click the “Authorize access” button and paste PIN number to the terminal, the rainbow will start.
While your personal stream is continued, you are also ready to tweet, search, reply, retweet… directly from console. Simply type “h” and hit the Enter key to see the help.
Input is in interactive mode. It means that you can use arrow key to move up and down history, tab-autocomplete or 2 tab to view available suggestion. Input history from previous run is available as well.
Available commands are listed in Read The Docs.
Rainbow Stream is shipped with some default themes.
You can either change theme by theme
command or create your favorite one.
Theme’s screenshot:
- Monokai
- Solarized
- Tomorrow Night
- Larapaste
For detaile information, see theme usage and customization.
Found a bug or a feature request ? Please create an issue or contact me at @dtvd88
If you want to build a runnable version yourself, follow these simple steps
Get your Twitter application’s API key and secret
Fork this repo and clone in your system.
Create a file
consumer.py
in rainbowstream folder with following content# Consumer information CONSUMER_KEY = 'APIKey' # Your Twitter application's API key CONSUMER_SECRET = 'APISecret' # Your Twitter application's API secret
Use pip to install in local
# cd to directory which contains setup.py (cloned directory) virtualenv venv # Python3 users: use -p to specify python3 source venv/bin/activate pip install -e . which rainbowstream # /this-directory/venv/bin/rainbowstream pip list | grep rainbowstream # rainbowstream (0.x.x, /this-directory) # Remove ~/.rainbow_oauth if exists rainbowstream # local version of rainbowstream
I appreciate any help and support. Feel free to fork and create a pull request. You will be listed as contributor.
Rainbow Stream are released under an MIT License. See LICENSE.txt for details