A minimalist write-only Twitter client.
Project description
SayMinimal is a simple, write-only¹ Twitter client. The point of SayMinimal is to map it to a keypress so you can press a button, comment on something, and then go back to what you were doing before.
¹Technically SayMinimal also reads your most recent tweet when you ask it to thread tweets together.
Setup
SayMinimal requires Python 3, Gtk+ 3, and PyGObject.
If you’ve got those taken care of, you can install SayMinimal with pip:
sudo pip3 install sayminimal
After that, the GUI should walk you through OAuth setup. Basically, you can choose to use the default Consumer Key pair that’s hard-coded into the app, or you can provide your own. I recommend you provide your own because random people can find and abuse consumer keys that are published along with the source. You also need to authorize the app to read and write to your Twitter account (verifying it with a PIN).
Config
SayMinimal saves its configuration in ~/.config/sayminimal/conf.yml, which you can delete at any time to reset. The only conf saved in the current version is the four OAuth keys.
Keyboard Shortcuts
Enter - Send the current tweet.
Shift-Enter - Add a newline to your tweet. (It displays funky in the input text box but works)
Alt+I - Browse for an image to attach to the current tweet. SayMinimal currently only supports 1 media file per tweet.
Alt+T - Thread this tweet as a reply to your most recent previous tweet. Press again to toggle off.
Sentimental Historical Stuff
SayMinimal originated as a script I shared on the Arch Linux forums in May of 2010. Man, I was really a novice back then. This version of the program is much redone to take advantage of modern libraries and Twitter features.
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