Graham English

5 comments on “Update Twitter, Facebook, iChat, Adium, And Skype With Quicksilver”

• • Michael Wilde said:
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  • Jun 17th, 2008 at 11:49 am

  Graham… seem to be having a problem with URLs in the QS Tweet thing, when i tweet with a URL, nothing gets posted. seen that?

• • Graham English said:
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  • Jun 17th, 2008 at 12:46 pm

  With any URL? Or does it have query parameters like & % etc? I usually use this script via Quicksilver to shorten my URLs before I tweet them:

  #!/usr/bin/env python

  usage = '''
  Takes the URL of the frontmost Safari window/tab and
  shortens using the service at metamark.net. The shortened
  URL, which starts with "http://xrl.us/", is put on the
  clipboard, ready for pasting.
  '''

  from urllib import urlopen, urlencode
  from os import popen

  # Two functions for getting and setting the beep sound.
  #def getBeep():
  # cmd = "defaults -currentHost read -g #com.apple.sound.beep.sound"
  # return popen(cmd).read()

  #def setBeep(beepFile):
  # cmd = "defaults -currentHost write -g #com.apple.sound.beep.sound "
  # return popen(cmd + beepFile).read()

  # Get the URl of the frontmost Safari window/tab though AppleScript.
  applescript = '''tell application "Safari"
  URL of front document
  end tell'''

  url = popen("osascript -e '" + applescript + "'").read().strip()

  # Get the shortened URL from Metamark.
  shortURL = urlopen("http://metamark.net/api/rest/simple",
  urlencode({'long_url':url})).read()

  # Put the shortened URL on the clipboard.
  popen('pbcopy', 'w').write(shortURL)

  # Sound the Ping alert to tell the user the shortened URL is ready.
# Reset the alert sound after beeping.
#oldBeep = getBeep()
#print oldBeep
#setBeep("/System/Library/Sounds/Ping.aiff")
#applescript = 'osascript -e beep'
#setBeep(oldBeep)

• • burcak said:
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  • Jul 18th, 2008 at 12:26 pm

  hi Graham

  about the facebook part on your script. is it still working? because I couldn’t get it working properly.

• • burcak said:
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  • Jul 18th, 2008 at 4:01 pm

  hi again

  I fixed my problem. Nothing to do with your code

  it is working like charm.

  thanks

• • Graham English said:
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  • Jul 18th, 2008 at 5:26 pm

  Good. Glad you got it working.