Twitter ATM

This isn't a thing that makes Twitter give you cash. This is a thing where you use a PIN to get something. Specifically, this is a simple tool for navigating Twitter's PIN-based OAuth path from the command line. My use case is when I have an application that will tweet programatically, but only to one account ever. I don't want to build a callback web page or all that and I don't want to keep looking up how to do this process, so I made a simple gem.

Props to @hoonpark for the name idea.

Assuming you have rubygems installed, installation is easy:

$ gem install twitter_atm

Usage is like this:

$ twitter_atm --consumer_key=YOUR_CONSUMER_KEY --consumer_secret=YOUR_CONSUMER_SECRET

It will then tell you a URL to go to and prompt for a pin. Go to the URL, hit 'Allow' and copy the PIN number into the prompt. Twitter_atm will then make another call and return you the access token and secret, with which you can do whatever you like.

Simple.

You should store the token and secret in a secure place. If someone else gets ahold of it (and your consumer key and secret), they could pretend to Twitter to be you and tweet to the user's account (or whatever they've authorized you to do). Really, only use this for accounts you own. Using it any other way should be pretty impractical.

In short: YES!

Some guidelines:

• Fork the project.
• Make your commits (if you bump the version, make that it's own commit, please)
• Submit a pull request. Bonus points for 'release/*' topic branches.

This program is free software. It comes without any warranty, to the extent permitted by applicable law. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License, Version 2, as published by Sam Hocevar. See the LICENSE file or http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl for more details.