This is a collection of basic "recipes", many using twurl (the Swiss Army Knife for the Twitter API!) and jq to query the Twitter API and format the results. Also, some scripts to test or automate common actions.
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| mosquitto-1.3 sudo dtruss mosquitto_pub -t andy -m "hello" | |
| SYSCALL(args) = return | |
| madvise(0x103D89000, 0x2000, 0x5) = 0 0 | |
| open("/dev/dtracehelper\0", 0x2, 0x7FFF5C02A010) = 3 0 | |
| __sysctl(0x7FFF5C0299A0, 0x6, 0x0) = 0 0 | |
| __sysctl(0x7FFF5C0299A0, 0x6, 0x7FFC7D000000) = 0 0 | |
| kqueue(0x7FFF5C029BD0, 0x7FFFFFE00050, 0x193) = 3 0 | |
| kevent(0x3, 0x7FFF5C029BB0, 0x1) = 0 0 | |
| socket(0x1, 0x1, 0x0) = 4 0 | |
| setsockopt(0x4, 0xFFFF, 0x1022) = 0 0 |
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| feeStr null | |
| org.apache.commons.logging | |
| org.fusesource.hawtbuf.hawtbuf | |
| org.fusesource.hawtdb.hawtdb | |
| log4j | |
| org.dna.mqtt.moquette-bundle | |
| org.apache.felix.javax.servlet | |
| io.netty.buffer | |
| io.netty.codec | |
| io.netty.common |
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| $ system_profiler -detailLevel mini SPPrefPaneDataType SPApplicationsDataType SPDeveloperToolsDataType SPExtensionsDataType > sysreport.txt |
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| qlmanage -t -s 1000 -o . picture.svg |
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/ basic-recipes.md
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May 21, 2025 15:12
Twitter API recipes for twurl +jq, and other useful Twitter code snippets and tools
andypiper
/ CRC_Example.java
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December 31, 2020 09:45
Java snippet to generate Twitter Webhooks CRC response
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| import javax.crypto.Mac; | |
| import javax.crypto.spec.SecretKeySpec; | |
| import org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64; | |
| public class CRC_Example { | |
| public static void main(String[] args) { | |
| try { | |
| String consumer_secret = "secret"; | |
| String crc_token = "Message"; |
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| LEGO Move Hub | |
| 8E552B7A-1B9E-4F4D-A0AE-7D585F784B73 | |
| advertisementData: ["kCBAdvDataIsConnectable": 1, "kCBAdvDataTxPowerLevel": 0, "kCBAdvDataLocalName": LEGO Move Hub] | |
| 00001623-1212-EFDE-1623-785FEABCD123 [] | |
| 00001624-1212-EFDE-1623-785FEABCD123 ["read", "writeWithoutResponse", "write", "notify"] <0f00043c 01140002 00000002 000000> ["Client Characteristic Configuration <0100>"] | |
| Notification Log: | |
| 1502201043.29111 - 00001624-1212-EFDE-1623-785FEABCD123 isNotifying: true |
andypiper
/ random_followers.py
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January 25, 2018 16:45
— forked from aparrish/random_followers.py
random sample of twitter followers for a given screen name
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| # return a random sample of your twitter followers | |
| # run like so: | |
| # $ python random_followers.py <screen_name> | |
| # where <screen_name> is the account you want followers for | |
| import sys, random, json, urllib | |
| sname = sys.argv[1] | |
| ids_raw = urllib.urlopen( | |
| "https://api.twitter.com/1/followers/ids.json?screen_name="+sname).read() |
andypiper
/ DevRelResources.md
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Useful resources for getting started in Developer Relations pipr.co/devrel andypiper.url.lol/devrel
- Selling the Dream - Guy Kawasaki
- The Business Value of Developer Relations - Mary Thengvall
- Developer Relations: How to build and grow a successful developer program - Caroline Lewko & James Parton
- The Developer Advocacy Handbook - Christian Heilmann
- previously, The Developer Evangelism Handbook (out of print as a book, but available online)
- The Art of Community - Jono Bacon
- People Powered - Jono Bacon
- Buzzing Communities - Richard Millington
andypiper
/ 30dayssearch.js
Created
March 13, 2019 15:44
Twitter Premium 30-Day search simple request using node-oauth (Bearer Token only)
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| var OAuth2 = require('OAuth').OAuth2; | |
| var https = require('https'); | |
| var consumerKey = ''; | |
| var consumerSecret = '' | |
| var oauth2 = new OAuth2(consumerKey, consumerSecret, 'https://api.twitter.com/', null, 'oauth2/token', null); | |
| oauth2.getOAuthAccessToken('', { | |
| 'grant_type': 'client_credentials' | |
| }, function (e, access_token) { |