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 * ```home```will show your timeline. ```home 10``` will print exactly 10 tweet.
  53
  54 * ```view @mdo```will show @mdo 's timeline. ```view @dmo 9``` will print exactly 9 tweet.
  55
  56 * ```t the rainbow is god's promise to noah```will tweet exactly *'the rainbow is god's promise to noah'*
  57
  58 * ```rt 12```will retweet the tweet with *[id=12]*. You can see id of each tweet beside the time.
  59
  60 * ```rep 12 Really```will reply *'Really'* to the tweet with *[id=12]*.
  61
  62 * ```del 12```will delete thw tweet with *[id=12]*.
  63
  64 * ```s #noah```will search the word *'noah'*. Result will come back with highlight.
  65
  66 * ```fr```will list all friend (You are following people).
  67
  68 * ```fl```will list all follower.
  69
  70 * ```h```will show the help.
  71
  72 * ```c```will clear the screen.
  73
  74 * ```q```will quit.
  75
  76 For example see the screenshot above.
  77
  78 ## Bug Report
  79 Please [create an issue](https://github.com/DTVD/rainbowstream/issues/new)
  80 or contact me at [@dtvd88](https://twitter.com/dtvd88)
  81
  82 ## License
  83 Rainbow Stream are released under an MIT License. See LICENSE.txt for details