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OpenWRT Logging via Twitter

This won’t work anymore, digest auth is not supported by twitter so see the link by lostman below to get OAuth-capable client!

Update: On Oct 29 2011 I have shut down the twitter account. Here’s how it looked like:

Have you ever thought of your router twitting status updates? E.g. if the connection goes down and comes back you are notified right away in a light-weight fashion.

Never?

Nevermind, here’s how to do that:

  1. Create an account on twitter.
  2. Create a Basic authentication string with 
    echo -n "$username:$password" | base64
  3. Use the following shell script, substituting $base64string with the string obtained in previous step: 
    #!/bin/sh

TWEET="status=$*"

CONTENT_LENGTH=`echo -n $TWEET | wc -c`

MESSAGE="
POST /statuses/update.xml HTTP/1.1
Host: twitter.com
User-Agent: OpenWRT Twitter
Accept: application/json, text/javascript, */*
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: $CONTENT_LENGTH
Authorization: Basic $base64string

$TWEET"

echo "$MESSAGE" | telnet twitter.com 80 > /dev/null 2>/dev/null
  4. Save it as /usr/bin/tweet and start using it right away.
  5. Set up some cron job, make it log something and… follow your router :)

You can follow my router, just in case :)

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