diacli is the program that lets you communicate with Diaspora* from the command line.
Originally developed when the author's GUI (X.org and GNOME, I'm looking at you) crashed and refused to come to life again.
diacli has only three dependencies:
python- Python interpreter version 3.x,diaspy- unofficial Python API for Diaspora*,clap- library used to build the user interface.
You will of course need a Diaspora* account.
Python
Python can be downloaded from http://python.org/. Users of any flavor of Linux can use their package manager to get Python if it's not already installed on their system.
diaspy
diaspy can be installed using pip or obtained from GitHub.
If you want to use the bleeding edge version of API the GitHub method is suggested.
After fetching from GitHub install using setup.py script.
clap
clap can only be found on GitHub.
Use version 0.12.1 or later. CLAP is now mostly stable so you can also use the
most recent code from master or devel and you should be good to go.
You will have to manually install the code in your site-packages by executing
make local-install in cloned CLAP repository.
Move diacli.py to ~/.local/bin (or any place when executables are placed on your system --
~/.local/bin just don't require you to go root),
rename it to diacli (mv diacli.py diacli) and make it executable (chmod +x diacli).
git clone https://github.com/marekjm/diacli.git
cd diacli
cp ./diacli.py ~/.local/bin
cd ~/.local/bin
mv ./diacli.py ./diacli
chmod +x ./diacli
If you are OK with the ~/.local/bin default installation directory you can just do:
git clone https://github.com/marekjm/diacli.git
cd diacli
make install
And you are all set.
You can manage your configuration using config mode.
Configuration is read from:
~/.diacli/conf.json
Keys that have some meaning are:
handle: your handle,
Please, make note that diaspy and Diaspora* are both alpha software and
clap is somewhere between late alpha and early beta.
If you'll encounter any bugs, please report them to the developers.
diaspy
Find user Javafant or
marekjm an tell them what's wrong with diaspy.
Also, you can create an issue on GitHub or notify them somehow else.
clap
Find clap on GitHub and tell the author what's wrong.
Python
Python bugs can be reported on Python issue tracker.
Diaspora*
Diaspora*: first post the issue using #bug or #question tags. Maybe the solution is out there.
Alternatively, find Diaspora* on GitHub and report there.
