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I’ve messed about with the twitter API<\/a> before in a ham fisted sort of way (say ObliqueTweet<\/a>, twitter presenter<\/a> or Tweets @iowconference08<\/a>) by basically borrowing various snippets of code, this is another such effort.<\/p>\n I notice an interesting post on Tom Smith\u2019s theOTHERblog<\/a>: Twitter, Growl, Boosh! In AppleScript!!<\/a>. I’ve borrowed code from Tom before<\/a> and was interested in this latest script. The script basically used growl to show tweets for a search or hashtag to be used when watch tv with a group spread over different locations. Tom’s script used the Vienna rss reader as a intermediary for handling the RSS. I recently switched from Vienna to NetNewsWire and didn’t have Vienna installed so took a slightly different approach.<\/p>\n I remembered that someone had mentioned that AppleScript handles xml now (via the ‘System Events’ application) and this seemed like an opportunity to mess about with that and growl<\/a>.<\/p>\n I’ve cobbled together an applescript that runs and every minute, downloads the latest from a twitter search and growls them. The script is pretty rough at the moment (and in all likelihood will stay that way) but I’ve posted it for view<\/a> and will upload the actual script once it looks a wee bit better.<\/p>\n The script might be of use in the same way Tom’s is, to display tweets over a shared experience. Or perhaps so make sure I don’t miss an @johnjohnston tweet but don’t get caught up in twitter while I am ‘working’ but really it served to give me a bit more practice with the twitter search API<\/a> and in starting to learn to parse xml with AppleScript. As twitter become bigger by the second and its API continues to grow I hope one day I’ll do something useful.<\/p>\n![\"Growltweets\"](\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/images\/2009-04\/2009-04-15_growltweets.png\")
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