README.md

   1 ## Rainbow Stream
   2 Terminal-based Twitter Client with Streaming API support.
   3 Realtime tweetstream, compose, search ... and much more fun directly from terminal.
   4 Only supports Python 2.7 or later.
   5
   6 This package build on the top of [Python Twitter Tool](http://mike.verdone.ca/twitter/) and [Twitter Streaming API](https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/streaming) and inspired by [EarthQuake](https://github.com/jugyo/earthquake)
   7
   8 ## Screenshot
   9 ![v0.0.1](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DTVD/rainbowstream/master/screenshot/RainbowStreamv0.0.1.png)
  10
  11 ## Install
  12 **The recommened way:**
  13 * Clone this repo
  14 * Create virtualenv (optional but recommended)
  15 * Install dependencies
  16 * Install the package itself
  17
  18 ```bash
  19 git clone https://github.com/DTVD/rainbowstream.git
  20 cd rainbowstream
  21 virtualenv venv # Assume that you have virtualenv installed by "pip install virtualenv"
  22 source venv/bin/activate
  23 pip install -e .
  24 ```
  25 **The quick way:**
  26 * Install everything over the air
  27
  28 ```bash
  29 sudo pip install git+https://github.com/DTVD/rainbowstream.git
  30 ```
  31 **Note the I only support Python version 2.7+**
  32
  33 ## Usage
  34 #### The stream
  35 Just type
  36 ```bash
  37 rainbow
  38 ```
  39 and see your stream.
  40
  41 In the first time you will be asked for authorization of Rainbow Stream app at Twitter.
  42 Just click the "Authorize access" button and paste PIN number to the terminal, the rainbow will start.
  43
  44 #### The interactive mode
  45 While the rainbow stream is continued, you are also ready to tweet, search, reply, retweet... directly from console.
  46 Simply hit Enter key and type "h" to view the help
  47
  48 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
  49
  50 Here is full list of supported command
  51
  52 ```bash
  53 [@dtvd88]home
  54 ```
  55 Show your timeline. A number come after will decide number of tweets to print. Ex 'home 10'.
  56
  57 ```bash
  58 [@dtvd88]view @mdo
  59 ```
  60 Show @mdo 's timeline.
  61
  62 ```bash
  63 [@dtvd88]t the rainbow is god's promise to noah
  64 ```
  65 Tweet exactly 'the rainbow is god's promise to noah'
  66
  67 ```bash
  68 [@dtvd88]rt 1
  69 ```
  70 Retweet the tweet with [id=1]. You can see id of each tweet beside the time.
  71
  72 ```bash
  73 [@dtvd88]rep 1 Really
  74 ```
  75 Reply 'Really' to the tweet with [id=1].
  76
  77 ```bash
  78 [@dtvd88]del 1
  79 ```
  80 Delete thw tweet with [id=1].
  81
  82 ```bash
  83 [@dtvd88]s #noah
  84 ```
  85 Search the word 'noah'. Result will come back with highlight.
  86
  87 ```bash
  88 [@dtvd88]fr
  89 ```
  90 List all friend (You are following people).
  91
  92 ```bash
  93 [@dtvd88]fl
  94 ```
  95 List all follower.
  96
  97 ```bash
  98 [@dtvd88]h
  99 ```
 100 SHow the help.
 101
 102 ```bash
 103 [@dtvd88]c
 104 ```
 105 Clear the screen.
 106
 107
 108 ```bash
 109 [@dtvd88]q
 110 ```
 111 Quit.
 112
 113 For example see the screenshot above.
 114
 115 ## License
 116 Rainbow Stream are released under an MIT License. See LICENSE.txt for details