Earthquake

Terminal-based Twitter Client with Streaming API.
It supports only Ruby 1.9.

Homepage: https://github.com/jugyo/earthquake
Twitter: http://twitter.com/earthquakegem
Demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2KtBGrIe5c
Slide: http://www.slideshare.net/jugyo/earthquakegem

We need patches that fix the english of the documentation!

Features

• You can use Twitter entirely in your Terminal.
• You can receive data in real time with Streaming API.
• You can easily extend by using Ruby.

Install

$ gem install earthquake

Ubuntu: The EventMachine needs the package libssl-dev.

$ sudo apt-get install libssl-dev

Usage

Launch

$ earthquake

Commands

Tweet

⚡ Hello World!

Show

⚡ $xx

$xx is the alias of tweet id.

Reply

⚡ $xx hi!

Delete

⚡ :delete $xx

Retweet

⚡ :retweet $xx

Timeline

⚡ :recent
⚡ :recent jugyo

Lists

⚡ :recent yugui/ruby-committers

Search

⚡ :search #ruby

Eval

⚡ :eval Time.now

Exit

⚡ :exit

Reconnect

⚡ :reconnect

Restart

⚡ :restart

Threads

⚡ :thread $xx

Install Plugins

⚡ :plugin_install https://gist.github.com/899506

Alias

⚡ :alias rt retweet

And there are more commands!

Configuration

The default earthquake director is ~/.earthquake.

The config file is ~/.earthquake/config.

Changing the earthquake directory

You can change the directory at launch as below:

$ earthquake ~/.earthquake_foo

Changing the colors for user name

# ~/.earthquake/config
Earthquake.config[:colors] = (31..36).to_a - [34]

Blue is excluded.

Changing the color scheme

# ~/.earthquake/config
Earthquake.config[:color] = {
  :info => 34,
  :notice => 41,
  :event  => 46,
  :url => [4, 34]
}

Defining aliases

# ~/.earthquake/config
Earthquake.alias_command :rt, :retweet

HTTP proxy support

Please set environment variable http_proxy if you want earthquake to use http proxy.

Desktop Notifications

To enable desktop notifications, install one of the following:

• ruby-growl (gem install ruby-growl)
• growlnotify (http://growl.info/extras.php#growlnotify)
• notify-send (sudo aptitude install libnotify-bin)
• libnotify (https://github.com/splattael/libnotify)

Call Earthquake.notify for desktop notification. You can try it by using the :eval command:

⚡ :eval notify 'Hello World!'

Plugins

see https://github.com/jugyo/earthquake/wiki

Making Plugin

~/.earthquake/plugin is the directory for plugins. At launch, Earthquake tries to load files under this directory. The block that is specified for Earthquake.init will be reloaded at any command line input.

Defining your commands

A command named 'foo':

Earthquake.init do
  command :foo do
    puts "foo!"
  end
end

Handling the command args:

Earthquake.init do
  command :hi do |m|
    puts "Hi #{m[1]}!"
  end
end

The 'm' is a MatchData.

Using regexp:

Earthquake.init do
  # Usage: :add 10 20
  command %r|^:add (\d+)\s+(\d+)|, :as => :add do |m|
    puts m[1].to_i + m[2].to_i
  end
end

Handling outputs

Keyword notifier:

Earthquake.init do
  output do |item|
    next unless item["_stream"]
    if item["text"] =~ /ruby/i
      notify "#{item["user"]["screen_name"]}: #{item["text"]}"
    end
  end
end

Favorite notifier:

Earthquake.init do
  output do |item|
    case item["event"]
    when "favorite"
      notify "[favorite] #{item["source"]["screen_name"]} => #{item["target"]["screen_name"]} : #{item["target_object"]["text"]}"
    end
  end
end

Defining filters for output

Filtering by keywords

Earthquake.init do
  output_filter do |item|
    if item["_stream"] && item["text"]
      item["text"] =~ /ruby/i
    else
      true
    end
  end
end

Replacing the output for tweets

Earthquake.init do
  output :tweet do |item|
    next unless item["text"]
    name = item["user"]["screen_name"]
    puts "#{name.c(color_of(name))}: foo"
  end
end

Defining completion

Earthquake.init do
  completion do |text|
    ['jugyo', 'earthquake', '#eqrb'].grep(/^#{Regexp.quote(text)}/)
  end
end

TODO

• mark my tweet
• Earthquake should parse ARGV
• ruby1.9nize
• guideline for plugin
• deal proxy
• spec

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2011 jugyo. See LICENSE.txt for further details.