Rainbow Stream – Terminal-based Twitter Client
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Rainbow Stream Features
Interactive CLI
Fully customizable
Images on console
Almost everything you can do with a GUI application
Install Rainbow Stream On ubuntu 15.04
First you need to check the which version of python you are running using the following command
$python --version
Output
Python 2.7.9
In my case i am using version 2.7.9
So now install the pip package
sudo apt-get install python-pip
You can check pip version using the following command
$pip -version
Output
pip 1.5.6 from /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (python 2.7)
Install Rainbow stream
sudo pip install rainbowstream [For Python 2.7.x version]
sudo pip3 install rainbowstream [For Python 3.x version]
Output
Successfully installed rainbowstream python-dateutil arrow requests pyfiglet twitter PySocks
Cleaning up...
Using Rainbow Stream
type the following command from your terminal
rainbowstream
and see your stream.
It will open a tab in your default HTTP web browser, login and you will get a pin. If you have already logged into your account the page should be showing PIN or if you are tring from your terminal it will give you a URL to get the PIN.Copy the PIN from HTTP web Browser into your terminal and hit return key this will load your twitter stream
tweet’s images directly on terminal. You can try it with:
rainbowstream -iot # Or rainbowstream --image-on-term
use rainbowstream via an HTTP/SOCKS proxy. Proxy settings are provided as follows:
sudo rainbowstream --proxy-host localhost --proxy-port 1337 --proxy-type HTTP
# or using the short form
sudo rainbowstream -ph localhost -pp 1337 -pt HTTP
Both --proxy-port and --proxy-type can be omitted. In this case default proxy port 8080 and default proxy type SOCKS5 are used.
Uninstall Rainbow Stream
Run the following command from your terminal
sudo pip uninstall rainbowstream
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