chirpchirp

Twitter cli via app authentication.

About

Straightforward way of sending tweets, supporting multiline messages. Written natively in TypeScript.

Prerequisites

• Node.js version 10 or higher

Installation

npm install chirpchirp --global

Usage

1. Create a twitter app and generate keys
2. Set the environmental variables

   export TWITTER_API_KEY="TWITTER_API_KEY"
   export TWITTER_API_SECRET_KEY="TWITTER_API_SECRET_KEY"
   export TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN="TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN"
   export TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET="TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET"

3. Tweet

   chirpchirp send --message <message>

Example

chirpchirp send --message "Hello, World!"

Advanced usage

Command	Explanation
chirpchirp send --message <message> --twitter-api-key "TWITTER_API_KEY" --twitter-api-secret-key "TWITTER_API_SECRET_KEY" --twitter-access-token "TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN" --twitter-access-token-secret "TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET"	Instead of using the environmental variables
npx chirpchirp send --message <message>	Running without installation
chirpchirp --help	To get all the available options

Multiline messages for nonglobal installation

$Message = "Beavers
Squirrels
Bears"
 
node node_modules/chirpchirp/build/release/index.js send --message $Message

Spaces and multiline support

+ : Working

= : Non applicable

! : Spaces work, multiline doesn't (workaround above)

- : Not working (workaround above)

Command used	Global	Local	Not installed
chirpchirp	+	=	=
chirpchirp (from script)	!	!	=
npx chirpchirp	-	-	!
npx chirpchirp (from script)	-	-	!
node index.js	+	+	=