friendicurl

#!/bin/bash

# update friendika from bash with curl
# I put this in my path as "friendicurl"
# usage would be "friendicurl some text for update"

# here you enter your username and password
# you could simply assign these variables
# even in the curl command below, and skip this step.
# If I weren't lazy, I would also make it so you could have a .friendicurl config file
# to contain this data, I suppose...

read -p "username: " uname
read -p "password:  " pwrd

# and the server on which your friendika is hosted (mine is http://friendika.openmindspace.org)
read -p "server: " $url

# if you did not enter text for update, the script asks for it

if [[ $(echo $*) ]]; then
    ud="$*"
else
    read -p "Enter your update text: " ud
fi

# and this is the curl command that sends the update to the server

if [[ $(curl -u $uname:$pwrd -d status="$ud" $url/api/statuses/update.xml | grep error) ]]; then

# what does the server say?

    echo "Error"
else
    echo "Success!"
    echo $ud
fi