1 <h3>Getting Started</h3>
3 <li>Load the script in irssi: <code>/script load twirssi.pl</code></li>
4 <li>Log in to twitter: <code>/twitter_login username password</code>. To use
5 an account on <a href="http://identi.ca/">identi.ca</a>, just append
6 @identica to the user name, and make sure <code>Net::Identica</code> is
8 <li>Post updates: <code>/tweet I got twirssi working!</code></li>
9 <li>Every 5 minutes, new updates from twitter will be posted to the named
10 window. To manually poll, you can always type <code>/twitter_updates</code>, though if
11 you do it too often, twitter will block your access for a while</li>
14 <h3>Posting Commands</h3>
16 <li><code>/tweet <status></code> - Post a status update. Note, if
17 http://twitter.com is too slow, twirssi will give up after the preset
18 timeout. See the setting for twitter_timeout. </li>
19 <li><code>/tweet_as <account> <status></code> - Post a status
20 update as an alternate account</li>
21 <li><code>/dm <username> <message></code> - Send a direct message to username</li>
22 <li><code>/dm_as <account> <username> <message></code> -
23 Send a direct message to username from the specified account</li>
24 <li><code>/twitter_reply <username>:<num></code> - Reply to a
25 particular tweet. Only 100 are remembered for each user, and this can be
26 completely disabled by changing the twirssi_track_replies variable.</li>
27 <li><code>/twitter_reply_as <account> <username>:<num></code>
28 - Same as /twitter_reply but allowing specifying an account to reply from.</li>
29 <li><code>/reply <username>:<num></code> - Same as
30 /twitter_reply, but only if the twirssi_use_reply_aliases is set to true
31 (off by default).</li>
32 <li><code>/reply_as <account> <username>:<num></code> -
33 Same as /twitter_reply_as, but only if the twirssi_use_reply_aliases is
34 set to true (off by default).</li>
35 <li><code>/retweet <username>:<num> [comment]</code> - Retweet
36 someone else, with an optional comment.</li>
37 <li><code>/retweet_as <account> <username>:<num>
38 [comment]</code> - Retweet someone else, using an alternate account, with
39 an optional comment.</li>
41 <h3>Other Commands</h3>
43 <li><code>/twitter_follow <username></code> - Start following username</li>
44 <li><code>/twitter_add_follow_extra <username></code> - Show all the
45 posts by username, even for people who you do not follow</li>
46 <li><code>/twitter_del_follow_extra <username></code> - Stop showing
47 all the posts by username</li>
48 <li><code>/twitter_list_follow_extra</code> - Show the list of all the
49 usernames in the extra follow loop</li>
50 <li><code>/twitter_list_subscriptions</code> - List all the existing search
51 subscriptions for all accounts.</li>
52 <li><code>/twitter_login <username> <password></code> - Log in to twitter</li>
53 <li><code>/twitter_logout [<username>]</code> - Log out the current account, or the named account</li>
54 <li><code>/twitter_switch <username></code> - Start using the named account as the default</li>
56 <li><code>/twitter_unfollow <username></code> - Stop following username</li>
57 <li><code>/twitter_block <username></code> - Block username</li>
58 <li><code>/twitter_unblock <username></code> - Unblock username</li>
59 <li><code>/twitter_updates</code> - Poll for updates manually</li>
60 <li><code>/twitter_subscribe <keyword></code> - Add a search
61 subscription for the current account.</li>
62 <li><code>/twitter_unsubscribe <keyword></code> - Remove an existing search
63 subscription from the current account.</li>
64 <li><code>/twitter_device_updates <none|im|sms></code> - Set delivery
65 device. Note that IM delivery is currently disabled by Twitter, and there
66 are no timeline when it might be restored.</li>
67 <li><code>/twirssi_version</code> - Report the current version number</li>
69 <li><code>/twirssi_upgrade</code> - Check for a new version of twirssi, and
70 download it if it's there</li>
74 <p>These are set by the /set command - <code>/set bitlbee_server</code> will show the
75 current value, <code>/set bitlbee_server bitlbee_tag</code> will set it to
76 <code>bitlbee_tag</code>.</p>
78 <li><code>bitlbee_server</code> - What is the server tag for bitlbee (used for away messages)</li>
79 <li><code>short_url_provider</code> - What service to use to shorten urls - pick from
80 <a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?query=www%3A%3Ashorten&mode=module"
81 >WWW::Shorten</a></li>
82 <li><code>short_url_args</code> - Some of the WWW::Shorten modules require
83 additional arguments, such as a username or API key. Enter those here if
84 needed, comma separated.</li>
85 <li><code>twirssi_always_shorten</code> - When false (the default), URLs will
86 only be shortened if the tweet would be too long. When true, URLs will
87 always be shortened</li>
88 <li><code>show_own_tweets</code> - Should our own tweets be displayed? Defaults to on.</li>
89 <li><code>show_reply_context</code> - When set to on, and someone you follow is replying
90 to someone you are not, the tweet that generated the reply will be pulled and
91 shown. Defaults to off.</li>
92 <li><code>tweet_to_away</code> - Set to on to post non-@reply updates as your away message</li>
93 <li><code>tweet_window_input</code> - Enable tweeting directly by writing to
94 the twitter window. Off by default</li>
95 <li><code>twirssi_retweet_format</code> - The format to use when retweeting.
96 Default value is "RT $n: "$t" ${-- $c$}". $n is the nick that's being
97 retweeted; $t is the text of the original tweet; $c is the text of the
98 optional comment attached; ${ and $} mark the seciton that should be
99 omitted if no comment was provided.
101 <li><code>twirssi_hilights</code> - Should messages containing your @nick be
102 considered IRC hilights. (default on)</li>
103 <li><code>twirssi_location</code> - Location of the twirssi.pl script, used
104 by <code>/twirssi_upgrade</code></li>
105 <li><code>twirssi_nick_color</code> - If set, @nicks will be shown in the
106 color set. (default: %B). Note that the theme variables (twirssi_tweet,
107 twirssi_search, twirssi_reply, twirssi_dm) should be updated as
109 <li><code>twirssi_notify_timeouts</code> - If set, twirssi will emite a
110 message when twitter is being so slow that it fails to retrieve
111 updates. (default on)</li>
112 <li><code>twirssi_replies_autonick</code> - On by default. If on, /reply
113 will make sure the reply begins with @nick. If off, you can reply to
114 someone, but not have their name on the reply</li>
115 <li><code>twirssi_replies_store</code> - Location where the /reply map is to be stored.</li>
116 <li><code>twirssi_topic_color</code> - If set, #topics will be shown in the
117 color set. (default: %r)</li>
118 <li><code>twirssi_track_replies</code> - Should twirssi keep track of
119 individual IDs of incoming twitters? If enabled (which is the default)
120 incoming tweets will show a :num appended to them. This is requried for
121 /reply and /twitter_reply functionallity.</li>
122 <li><code>twirssi_use_reply_aliases</code> - Enable /reply and /reply_as as
123 aliases to /twitter_reply and /twitter_reply_as. Requires a reload of
124 twirssi to take effect. (default off)</li>
125 <li><code>twirssi_upgrade_beta</code> - Default off. If on, /twirssi_upgrade
126 will try to grab the most recent version from github, instead of the latest
127 released version. Note that beta versions might have more bugs than the
128 released version.</li>
129 <li><code>twirssi_avoid_ssl</code> - Default off. If off, twirssi will
130 attempt to use SSL for all network communications. Changes take effect
131 next time twirssi is loaded.</li>
133 <li><code>twitter_passwords</code> - A comma separated list of passwords to auto-login</li>
134 <li><code>twitter_poll_interval</code> - How often should new messages be
135 requested from twitter (in seconds). Default is every 5 minutes. Keep
136 in mind that twitter will rate limit your user (or IP) if you hit them
137 too often. Hardcoded minimum is one minute.</li>
138 <li><code>twitter_friends_poll</code> - How often should the updated friends
139 list be retrieved from the server. By default, only once every 10
141 <li><code>twitter_timeout</code> - How long should we wait before giving up
142 on a twitter operation. Should help avoid irssi pinging out of IRC
143 servers when twitter is slow.</li>
144 <li><code>twitter_usernames</code> - A comma separated list of usernames to auto-login. Note that the last one will be the default account used after startup.</li>
145 <li><code>twitter_window</code> - Which irssi window should twitter updates be sent to</li>