twitter-fusefs

twitter-fusefs is a program to mount your twitter account as a filesystem.

When you run it it will generate the following directory structure:

direct_messages  followers/  friends/  README  replies  timeline  updates
favorites status

• direct_messages: when 'read' will output your direct_messages
• README: when 'read' will output some info about twitter-fusefs
• replies: when 'read' will output your replies
• timeline: when 'read' will output your timeline (with your friends)
• updates: when 'read' will output your tweets, when 'written to' will create a new tweet with the msg
• favorites: when 'read' will output your favorite tweets
• status: when 'read' will output your status info

• followers/: has a list of files, each with a follower's nick
• friends/: has a list of files, each with a friend's nick

When 'read' from users' files will output his/her timeline, when 'written to' users' files will update your timeline adding @user.

First of all, install Ruby FuseFS (as far as I know, there's no ruby gem). There's a debian/ubuntu package though.

There's a ruby gem now, you should be able to get it if you have the github repository just doing sudo gem install chmeee-twitter-fusefs. This should install the twitter gem as well.

Otherwise, if you don't want to use a ruby gem you can do the following

• Install the twitter gem: sudo gem install twitter
• Download twitter-fusefs, uncompress

1. Create a directory ~/.twitter with

   email: yourtwitteraccountmail

   password: yourcomplexpassword

2. mkdir a directory where you want to mount

3. twitter-fusefs yourdirectory

Please, note that this script does not require rubygems, as you may not be using it. If you do you'll have to tell ruby so. The best way I think is through

export RUBYOPT="rubygems"

twitter-fusefs is still in design and development. I'm still thinking about some of the details, so here's a to-do list:

• [DONE] Use SSL
• [DONE] Access user status: /status for the mounting user and 'maybe' /(followers|friends)/user_status for the rest of users
• Unfollow people with rm on /friends
• Follow with touch on /friends
• Block with rm on /followers
• Reformat the output of tweets and add more information (like time, app, in respond to, etc.)
• Access to Twitter trends (whatever that is)
• A way to finish the program gracely
• [DONE] Produce a ruby-gem
• [DONE] Make a github page for the project (quite empty atm)
• Make tests!!! (I don't know how yet)
• Make rdoc comments
• A way to answer tweets
• A way to send and reply to direct_messages
• [DONE] Show favorites
• Create favorites

• Fork the project.
• Make your feature addition or bug fix.
• Add tests for it. This is important so I don't break it in a future version unintentionally.
• Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history. (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)
• Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.

Copyright (c) 2009 chmeee. See LICENSE for details.