Comments on: Update Twitter, Facebook, iChat, Adium, And Skype With Quicksilver

By: Graham English

Graham English — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:34:02 +0000

Facebook changed their API. But the best way to update your FB status via Twitter is with the Twitter/Facebook app. So that part of the script has been made redundant.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:48:16 +0000

Hmm. I was able to get this working for Twitter, but not for facebook. The script returns a growl notice saying it completed (both in the comprehensive and facebook only versions), but the FB status doesn’t update…. Any suggestions? Or has FB changed its status access somehow?

By: IM Status: Update Your Skype, iChat, Or Adium Status With Quicksilver by Graham English

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:16:12 +0000

[...] Update 05-08-07: I made a change to the way I use this script. Since I like to set the status and the message when I come and go, I’ve updated the script to do this. I’m leaving v1.0 alone but you can click here to open IM Status v1.1 in Script Editor. Update 08-11-07: If you want to update Facebook, see this post: Update Twitter, Facebook, iChat, Adium, And Skype With Quicksilver [...]

By: Graham English

Graham English — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:12:47 +0000

If there’s no Actions folder, just create one.

By: Trevor

Trevor — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 09:13:00 +0000

This may be a total noob kind of question but when I navigate to /Library/Application Support/Quicksilver there is a file called Actions.plst but there is not a folder called Actions. From your post I assumed you were talking about a folder called Actions. How do I work with this?

By: Graham English

Graham English — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:26:02 +0000

Good. Glad you got it working.

By: burcak

burcak — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:01:43 +0000

hi again

I fixed my problem. Nothing to do with your code

it is working like charm.

thanks

By: burcak

burcak — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:26:39 +0000

hi Graham

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

By: Graham English

Graham English — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:46:18 +0000

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)

By: Michael Wilde

Michael Wilde — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:49:26 +0000

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?

By: iQuickTwitter - My Quicksilver + Twitter + iChat + Growl Hack by Graham English

iQuickTwitter - My Quicksilver + Twitter + iChat + Growl Hack by Graham English — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:54:20 +0000

[...] Update 4-21-07: Integrated Skype mood text updates as an option. See instructions for details. Update 8-11-07: Integrated Facebook updates as an option. See this post: Update Twitter, Facebook, iChat, Adium, And Skype With Quicksilver [...]

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