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Voltron43
Joined: 27 Mar 2009
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 Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2009 8:54 pm Post subject: Update Twitter via Launchy & AHK |
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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
4. Type twit in the Launchy bar and then press Tab and type your Twitter status.
5. Voilą
twit.ahk
| Code: | ; ==============================================================================
; NAME: twit.ahk
; VERSION: v0.1.0
; DESCRIPTION: Update Twitter status via Launchy
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; AUTHOR: Voltron43
; HOMEPAGE: http://autohotkey.net/~Voltron43
; ==============================================================================
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; ---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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| Posted: Tue May 10, 2011 7:34 am Post subject: Error |
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| 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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sumon
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Location: Sweden
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| Posted: Tue May 10, 2011 8:17 am Post subject: |
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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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fragman
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| Posted: Tue May 10, 2011 9:10 am Post subject: |
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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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Sky
Joined: 01 Apr 2011
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Location: California
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| Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 3:59 am Post subject: |
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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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nfl
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| Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 8:36 am Post subject: |
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@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
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; AUTHOR: Voltron43
; HOMEPAGE: http://autohotkey.net/~Voltron43
; ==============================================================================
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; ---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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Sky
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| Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 4:18 pm Post subject: |
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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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fragman
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| Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 4:32 pm Post subject: |
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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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nfl
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| Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 5:57 pm Post subject: |
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| 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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Sky
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| Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 7:29 pm Post subject: |
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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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