codelurker / turses

Twitter client written in Python featuring a sexy curses interface.

turses: a Twitter client featuring a curses interface

turses is a Twitter client with a sexy curses interface written in Python. Various parts of the codebase are borrowed from the Tyrs project by Nicolas Paris.

The goal of the project is to build a full-featured and flexible Twitter client.

Installation

If you downloaded the source code :

$ python setup.py install

With pip :

$ pip install turses

or (but you should consider using pip): :

$ easy_install turses

Features

• Multiple timelines (buffers)
• Multi-column
• Tweet, Reply, Retweet, Delete tweet
• Follow/Unfollow
• Favorite/Unfavorite
• Direct Messages
• Open URLs in browser
• Thread view
• Unread count
• Search
• View any user's tweets
• Fully customizable
• Multiple accounts

Development

The code is hosted on a git repo.

turses is evolving fast, a list of tasks can be found on the on the issue tracker.

To contribute code:

1. Create a branch from develop
2. Commit your changes
3. Add yourself to AUTHORS
4. Send a pull request

Any feedback is very much appreciated.

Roadmap

• Documentation
• Lists
• Streaming
• Notifications
• Multiple sessions
• Geo
• Blocking

Screenshots

A turses session with multiple columns running on urxvt:

License

turses is licensed under a GPLv3 license, see LICENSE for details.