kensanata/diacli

Diaspora* command line client in Python 3

diacli - Diaspora* Command Line Interface

diacli is the program that let's you communicate with Diaspora* from the command line. Originally developed when author's GUI (X.org and GNOME, I'm looking at you) crashed and refused to come to life again.

Dependencies

diacli has only three dependencies:

• python - Python interpreter version 3.x,
• diaspy - unofficial Python API for Diaspora*,
• clap - library used to build the user interface.

You will of cource need a Diaspora* account.

Python

Python can be downloaded from http://python.org/. Users of any flavor of Linux can use their package manager to get Python if it's not already installed on their system.

diaspy

diaspy can be installed using pip or obtained from GitHub. If you want to use the bleeding edge version of API the GitHub method is suggested. After fetching from GitHub install using setup.py script.

clap

clap (which stands for Command Line Arguments Parser) can only be found on GitHub. If you want to be on the safe side use master branch but if you are not afraid of insects you can also try devel. You will have to manually install the code in your site-packages.

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Installation

Move diacli.py to ~/.local/bin (or any place when executables are placed on your system -- ~/.local/bin just don't require you to go root), rename it to diacli (mv diacli.py diacli) and make it executable (chmod +x diacli).

git clone https://github.com/marekjm/diacli.git
cd diacli
cp ./diacli.py ~/.local/bin
cd ~/.local/bin
mv ./diacli.py ./diacli
chmod +x ./diacli

If you are OK with the ~/.local/bin default installation directory you can just do:

git clone https://github.com/marekjm/diacli.git
cd diacli
make install

And you are all set.

Configuration

You can manage your configuration using config mode.

Configuration is read from:

~/.diacli/conf.json

Keys that have some meaning are:

• handle: your handle,

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Bugs

Please, make note that diaspy and Diaspora* are both alpha software and clap is somewhere between late alpha and early beta. If you'll encounter any bugs, please report them to the developers.

diaspy

Find user Javafant or marekjm an tell them what's wrong with diaspy. Also, you can create an issue on GitHub or notify them somehow else.

clap

Find clap on GitHub and tell the author what's wrong.

Python

Python bugs can be reported on Python issue tracker.

Diaspora*

Diaspora*: first post the issue using #bug or #question tags. Maybe the solution is out there. Alternatively, find Diaspora* on GitHub and report there.