sferik/x-cli
X Cli
x-cli is a command-line client for Twitter (X) that lets you post, search, stream and manage accounts from the terminal. It is written in Ruby and built for scripting: results come out as column-aligned text or CSV, and commands return meaningful exit codes, for example when checking whether one account follows another, so they fit into shell pipelines alongside tools such as grep, awk and xargs.
Requests are signed with OAuth 1.0a or 2.0 credentials. Several account profiles can be kept in a single YAML configuration file, and you can list them, switch the active one and remove accounts. The client works against both the v1.1 and v2 API versions and falls back to the other when one is unavailable. It retries temporary errors with increasing delays and sends independent requests concurrently, so operations touching many items finish faster than sequential calls.
Beyond posting and account management, it can hold a persistent connection open to stream sampled or filtered posts live from searches, users, lists and timelines, with an optional cap on events. It can also search up to 3,200 recent posts with regular-expression filtering, and work with lists. Commands are organised as a tree with aliases and options, and completion definitions for Bash, Zsh and fish are included.
