Command Line Interface Tweeter (rust version)

Screenshot in alacritty:

The rust version of this tool is somewhat faster than its haskell counterpart, but the haskell one has a couple more features.

Reasons to use tw-rs:

• Faster than other tools (t, tweet-hs, oysttyer)
• Lightweight (5MB, low CPU/memory usage)
• Unobtrusive
• Support for colored output.
• Can be used in scripts
• You know rust and like being able to extend your tools.
• You want something that can be called from vim
• You want a twitter library for rust.
• BSD3 licensed

Reasons not to use tw-rs:

• Several features are still in development
• Fewer features than rainbowstream, t, or oysttyer
• You want to extend your tools in haskell
• You want "twitter in a terminal" that rainbowtools or oysttyer provides.
• You want to be able to easily tweet emoji

Config

Generate a token to authorize access to your twitter account by following the guide here

Then place your API keys and OAuth tokens in a file (default is $HOME/.cred), separated by a line break:

api-key: API_KEY_HERE
api-sec: API_SECRET_HERE
tok: OAUTH_TOKEN_HERE
tok-sec: TOKEN_SECRET_HERE

Note that the labels must in the correct order, and separated from the keys with whitespace.

Installation

If you're on Linux/Windows the best way is probably to download the binaries from the releases page here.

Otherwise, you'll have to build from source. To build from source, install cargo via rustup; on unix systems this is as simple as

curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh

Then type cargo install tw-rs.

Use

View Profiles

To get your profile, simply type:

$ tw user

To view a user's profile, type e.g.

$ tw user pinepapplesmear

If you have any problems along the way:

$ tw help

Sending tweets

$ tw send "YOUR_TWEET_TEXT"

Viewing your timeline

You can also use

$ tw view

to view your own timeline.

Features

• tweet
• view timeline
• view user profiles
• output with id of tweet
• delete tweet
• retweet
• reply to tweet
• fav/unfav tweets
• follow/unfollow users
• fetch mentions
• block accounts
• tweet an image
• display quoted tweets alongside

Speed

In the bash directory you will find a script that times tw-rs, tweet-hs, oysttyer, and t fetching tweets. On linux, it consistently places tw as the fastest.

Comparison to other command-line clients

Screenshots (alacritty + solarized dark)

tw

t

rainbowstream

tweet

oysttyer

Some results

These aren't 100% great benchmarks since twitter's load varies, but tw does come in first consistently. This is the time to get, parse, and display 20 tweets in color (50 times)

Coloring

tw-rs respects the CLICOLOR behavior defined here. If you wish to disable colorization,

 $ export CLICOLOR=0

Emoji

To make tw use standard unicode in place of symbol fonts, simply set

 $ export DISABLE_EMOJI

Library

A library is included. It's fairly easy to use once you have the credentials set up, with three functions: one to post a status, one to get your timeline, and one to get a user profile.

Haskell

There is a haskell version of this, with a binary and a library, available here. The haskell library is more complete.