https://github.com/imrehg/twitterrfs

Twitter-RouteFS to access tweets in your filesystem.
https://github.com/imrehg/twitterrfs

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Twitter-RouteFS to access tweets in your filesystem.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/imrehg/twitterrfs
• Owner: imrehg
• License: mit
• Created: 2010-07-09T05:55:21.000Z (over 14 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2010-07-16T02:58:11.000Z (over 14 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-08T17:42:35.471Z (8 months ago)
• Language: Python
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• Size: 97.7 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.markdown
  • License: LICENSE.txt

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As an excercise after reading a blogpost [Building Filesystems the Way You Build Web Apps](http://blog.ksplice.com/2010/07/building-filesystems-the-way-you-build-web-apps/), Twitter-RouteFS (or TwitterRFS) is a simple, readonly filesystem to get tweets quickly in the filesystem and be able to interact with them in other programs that might not know how to access Twitter.

## Requirements

[python-fuse](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/fuse-python/0.2)

[python-routes](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Routes)

[python-routefs](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/RouteFS)

[python-twitter](http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/)

## Usage

    > chmod +x twitterrfs.py

    > mkdir twitter

    > ./twitterrfs.py twitter

    > ls twitter/

 

This should show an empty directory

    > ls twitter/

This will list 's tweets by their ID numbers. To see the tweet text, just issue:

    > cat twitter//

Also, now the username is known, so

    > ls twitter/

    

The username and tweets are cached, thus not updated after the first check. Thus to update, now one has to remount.

    > fusermount -u twitter

    > ./twitterrfs.py twitter 

## Known issues

Because python-fuse don't seem to support unicode text in files, unicode tweets have to be escaped at the moment. This might make the text pretty much unreadable.

## License

Released under MIT-style license, for details see License.txt in the root directory.