Great tip! This should become a great thread with cURL tips. Below shows how to send POST data (note the -d flag):
curl -u username:password -d status="Updating with cURL" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml You can also send GET requests: curl -u username:password http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.xml What else does the community have to offer when it comes to our favorite API unit test framework :) Doug Williams Twitter API Developer Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 3:14 PM, TjL <luo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm not sure how many other people know this, so my apologies if this > is "Duh" material, but I've never worked much with curl before (always > been a lynx man :-) > > If you use 'curl --netrc' curl will check ~/.netrc for your Twitter > login information. > > Just enter your Twitter login information like this: > > machine twitter.com > login twitreport > password SuPerSEkret > > Obviously change 'twitreport' to your Twittername and 'SuPerSEkret' to > your password. It can all be on one line if you prefer. > > The nice thing is that this keeps your password from appearing in 'ps' > and you don't have to type it in each time, just add --netrc and it > will happen automatically. > > TjL
