TweetFS

Clandestinely store small files and directories on Twitter.

http://github.com/rw/tweetfs

TweetFS remebers the names and permissions of files and directories. Each node may be downloaded as a separate entity from Twitter. Tweets are enciphered using the Plainsight library.

This project is a collaboration with @workmajj. It uses his SeqTweet library.

Contact

Robert Winslow

rw@rwinslow.com

@robert_winslow

Installation

sudo pip install tweetfs

Usage

1. Create a ~/.tweetfs directory.

2. Create the file ~/.tweetfs/creds.cfg. It must have the following format:

    [Twitter]
    CONSUMER_KEY = __
    CONSUMER_SECRET = __
    ACCESS_KEY = __
    ACCESS_SECRET = __
   

   The values can be retrieved using SeqTweet's auth.py script.

3. Add texts into the directory ~/.tweetfs/texts/. I recommend classic novels from Project Gutenberg.

4. Run the following:

    tweetfs upload <file or directory>
   

   It'll print a list of tweet ids that were created when storing the files.

5. Any file can be retrieved by referencing its tweet id:

    tweetfs download <tweet id> <optional filename to write to>
   

   Remember to keep the filesizes small--Twitter doesn't let us put many tweets up in a day :-)

License

Copyright (c) 2011, Robert Winslow All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

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The names of the contributors may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

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