Comments on: Tweet your plurks

By: Plurk Goodies for You : New Linux User - Linux Tips - Information for Using Linux

Fri, 15 May 2009 02:21:05 +0000

[...] If you are on both Twitter and Plurk and you’re more of a Twitter user, you could choose to plurk your tweets using this script. Actually, it could also tweet your plurks. So updating both Twitter and Plurk will be easy too. Other information about this Python script is available here. [...]

By: Plurk your tweets « The Mendicant Bug

Plurk your tweets « The Mendicant Bug — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 06:07:48 +0000

[...] to a linux machine, I suggest setting up a cron job to take care of this. As I mentioned in the previous post, if you set up a cron job, be sure to change the path to plurkdb.dat to an absolute path. I have [...]

By: Simon Bate

Simon Bate — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:15:45 +0000

Thanks, Jason. It works great now (XP, SP2).

By: Jason Adams

Jason Adams — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:18:31 +0000

Ok, it’s updated now and should work on windows, linux and mac… in theory.

By: Jason Adams

Jason Adams — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:45:18 +0000

Simon, thanks for the info. I’ll make some changes so it works on windows sometime soon. I was taking a shortcut that was only available on linux to talk to Twitter.

By: Ryan Mac

Ryan Mac — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:14:27 +0000

Thanks for the script! I’ll try it out once I get a chance later today. I’m wondering if it’s possible to update Plurk from Twitter though? I already have my GoogleTalk status updating my AIM and Twitter using a cron job. It’d be great if I could add Plurk to the mix.

By: Simon Bate

Simon Bate — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:08:48 +0000

I get an error (under Python25 for Windows). I’ve got limited experience with Python, so I can’t really jump into debugging. Not my real accounts or password (of course)

C:\Utilities>plurk.py mytwitter tWiTtErPaSs myplurk
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “C:\Utilities\plurk.py”, line 216, in
main(sys.argv[3], sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2])
File “C:\Utilities\plurk.py”, line 206, in main
update_twitter_status(twitter_user, passwd, update)
File “C:\Utilities\plurk.py”, line 185, in update_twitter_status
outp = subprocess.Popen(cmdp, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()
File “C:\Python25\lib\subprocess.py”, line 594, in __init__
errread, errwrite)
File “C:\Python25\lib\subprocess.py”, line 816, in _execute_child
startupinfo)
WindowsError: [Error 2] The system cannot find the file specified

By: David Novakovic

David Novakovic — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 06:53:11 +0000

I really wanna try it, but not internet at home :(

stupid aussie broadband

By: Jason Adams

Jason Adams — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 06:39:09 +0000

Known bug: it doesn’t handle links well. I’ll try to address this soon, but I’m too tired to do anything else tonight. :P