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Voltron43
PostPosted: June 5th, 2009, 9:54 pm 
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I was searching for some more things to do with Launchy, the open source keystroke launcher, and I came across an old Lifehacker article explaining how to update your Twitter status using Launchy, curl and a batch script.

I don't like using using curl, so I made a script instead using httpQuery.

DIRECTIONS
    1. Save the twit.ahk script to a directory.

    2. Enter your Twitter UserName and Password into the script.
Code:
UserName := "UserName"
Password := "Password"

    3. Add the directory to Launchy's Catelog and add *.ahk to the extensions

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    4. Type twit in the Launchy bar and then press Tab and type your Twitter status.

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    5. Voilà

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twit.ahk
Code:
; ==============================================================================
; NAME:         twit.ahk
; VERSION:      v0.1.0
; DESCRIPTION:  Update Twitter status via Launchy
;
; AUTHOR:       Voltron43
; HOMEPAGE:     http://autohotkey.net/~Voltron43
; ==============================================================================
;
; ---Construct Status message from passed parameters
Loop, %0%
    Status := A_Index = 1 ? %A_Index% : Status " " %A_Index%

; ---Check to make sure Status is shorter than 140 characters
If StrLen(Status) > 140
{
    MsgBox, 32,,Status is too long!
    ExitApp
}
UserName := "UserName"
Password := "Password"
URL := "http://" UserName ":" Password "@twitter.com/statuses/update.xml?"
POSTdata := "status=" Status
length := httpQUERY(buffer:="",URL,POSTdata)
VarSetCapacity(buffer, -1)

; ---Check for error
If buffer contains status
    MsgBox, 32,, Status Update Complete!
Else
    MsgBox, 32,, Twitter Error!

#Include httpQuery.ahk

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Vamsi
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PostPosted: May 10th, 2011, 8:34 am 
I have downloaded the httpQuery.ahk too for the include directive. Messagebox throws a twitter error, I wonder why! Inspite of typing in the status in launchy. Strangely, It is going into the if condition if I exceed the 140 limit but if it is less, the buffer is not getting filled with the status. Please help me.


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PostPosted: May 10th, 2011, 9:17 am 
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My guess is that Twitter only supports oAuth. Octal said in this post that he is working on a solution.

As for me, Tweeting is one of the more useful things that I would like to integrate directly in front of my nose, instead of having to go to a website to do it.

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PostPosted: May 10th, 2011, 10:10 am 
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Hmm, interesting...
If this works I'd like to integrate it in my Accessor launcher in 7plus,
I suggest using COM for sending the data though. There should be an example for using the COM interface in the COM reference thread I think.


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PostPosted: July 5th, 2011, 4:59 am 
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Hmmmm This is very interesting. I was wondering if anyone could explain to me how the first few lines of code (specifically the loop with %0%) works? I understand that it takes whatever you typed into launchy and saves it as "status" but i cant figure out how it goes about doing that. Very useful script. Thanks Voltron43


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PostPosted: July 5th, 2011, 9:36 am 
@Sky:
The script is very simple, I'll explain it to you in the comments:
Code:
; ==============================================================================
; NAME:         twit.ahk
; VERSION:      v0.1.0
; DESCRIPTION:  Update Twitter status via Launchy
;
; AUTHOR:       Voltron43
; HOMEPAGE:     http://autohotkey.net/~Voltron43
; ==============================================================================
;
; ---Construct Status message from passed parameters
Loop, %0% ; variable 0 contains the number of parameters passed to the script, e.g. the numbers of words --> loop that often
    Status := A_Index = 1 ? %A_Index% : Status " " %A_Index% ; put the different words into a single string

; ---Check to make sure Status is shorter than 140 characters
If StrLen(Status) > 140
{
    MsgBox, 32,,Status is too long!
    ExitApp
}
UserName := "UserName"
Password := "Password"
URL := "http://" UserName ":" Password "@twitter.com/statuses/update.xml?" ; creates the url with username and password
POSTdata := "status=" Status ; this will be sent to the above url
length := httpQUERY(buffer:="",URL,POSTdata) ; send the status to twitter
VarSetCapacity(buffer, -1) ; convert the returned data to a string

; ---Check for error
If buffer contains status
    MsgBox, 32,, Status Update Complete!
Else
    MsgBox, 32,, Twitter Error!

#Include httpQuery.ahk

Just write back if you have further questions.


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PostPosted: July 5th, 2011, 5:18 pm 
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Thanks nfl!
so I was wondering, is variable 0 sort of like a predefined variable used by launchy? I dont see it defined anywhere in the script. also for the starust part I understand that if %A_index%(word) = 1 then the status would be %A_index% because there was only 1 word. but if %A_index% is more than 1, how does status " " %A_index% join the words? is it looping and adding a space in between the %A_index%'s(word)?
sorry for the noobish questions. And thank you very much nfl for explaining the rest of the script to me :) it was very helpful and im grateful


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PostPosted: July 5th, 2011, 5:32 pm 
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0 is the number of command line arguments, 1 is the first one, 2 the second,...
For further information please refer to the help file.


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PostPosted: July 5th, 2011, 6:57 pm 
Sky wrote:
is variable 0 sort of like a predefined variable used by launchy? I dont see it defined anywhere in the script.

No, it's the number of arguments passed to the script. Look in the help file under "parameters passed into a script".

Sky wrote:
but if %A_index% is more than 1, how does status " " %A_index% join the words? is it looping and adding a space in between the %A_index%'s(word)?

It is joining the words, because there is
Code:
status := status " " %A_Index%

You could write the block like this:
Code:
Loop, %0% ; variable 0 contains the number of parameters passed to the script, e.g. the numbers of words --> loop that often
{
   if (A_Index = 1)
      Status := %A_Index%
   else
      Status := Status " " %A_Index%
      ; or my preferred way
      ; Status .= " " %A_Index%
}


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thanks fragman and nfl! thanks to you guys ill be able to work on some cool scripts with launchy. hopefully the community will find them useful :p


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