[mythtv] MythTV and Twitter

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Nov 27, 2008, at 3:18 PM, Colin Guthrie wrote:

> Brad DerManouelian wrote:
>> I haven't seen anything like that. Sounds like a great idea. I'm  
>> more of
>> a facebook person so you've prompted me to look into writing a perl
>> script to parse through facebook status updates and display them in  
>> the
>> osd. Thanks. :)
>
> Cool. Please share that when you're done :)
>
> But I think you raise an important point that could help Charles which
> is that it's probably not a full blown myth plugin that would be  
> needed
> to do this but some kind of script (perl/python/whatever) that can  
> load
> the twitter information you want and just pipes it to the OSD on your
> frontend.

I poked around a little and couldn't find anything that would give the  
Facebook Live Feed back to perl. Facebook's Perl API allows you to  
post things to your facebook feed, but they really don't like you  
getting Facebook info and using it in your own applications. I've  
already spent more time than I was willing to put into it. :)

-Brad