Comments on: Keeping iChat and Adium status in sync with Twitter

By: JP Grace

JP Grace — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 01:26:06 +0000

This causing my computer to restart after letting the cron job run while the computer is asleep for several hours. Some applications will block restart with a modal dialog message, but this behavior isn’t consistent.

I did run into a few problems getting the script up and running including an issue with “Adobe Unit Types”. See the details of the error message and how I fixed it here: http://jpgrace.com/blog/2010/10/automatically-syncing-twitter-status-with-ichatadium/

Frankly, I’m just blindly digging through console logs searching for things I think it might be and coming up with nothing.

Does anyone have any ideas as to why this may be happening? Pointing me in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

By: Sascha

Sascha — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:50:41 +0000

Thank you for this script! Unfortunately, I don’t get it work. I only get an error message when I try to launch it: $ ~/Library/Scripts/sync-status-with-twitter.rb 287:291: syntax error: Expected “then”, etc. but found identifier. (-2741) Maybe you have an idea how to fix it.

By: Kailey

Kailey — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:00:49 +0000

Thanks!

I tweaked the script to let me use my most recent last.fm track – posted here: http://trepmal.com/scripts/lastfm-ichat-status/

By: Neelix

Neelix — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 07:16:58 +0000

Thanks a lot, Kegan! :)

By: Kegan

Kegan — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 05:29:59 +0000

Okay, so you're going to insert this line of code:

message = message[0,message.length-10]

after this line in the program:

exit if ! message

It's a pretty remedial fix, given that I don't know Ruby. I'm sure there's a more sensible fix.

By: Neelix

Neelix — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:56:13 +0000

Hi Kegan,

I've the same problem. Can you post your fix please? :) Thanks!

By: Kegan

Kegan — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 04:26:11 +0000

Nevermind, fixed it myself by parsing it out. Nothing like a crash course in Ruby!

By: Kegan

Kegan — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:28:36 +0000

Sorry, I meant /content, except with brackets around it. Doesn't display correctly in this comment system.

I.E. "just got home from school./content"

By: Kegan

Kegan — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:26:43 +0000

Script works wonderfully except for a stray "" on the end of each tweet.

I.E. "just got home from school."

Any idea on how to correct this? Using Adium 1.4b9, OSX 10.6.1.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:04:01 +0000

There's no error checking in the script (mostly because I'm a bit lazy sometimes), so unfortunately it doesn't give very helpful feedback if there's a problem – that error suggests to me that either it has an invalid twitter name, or a network problem – In this case, it's trying to get 'text' (the content) from an element in the Twitter timeline RSS, but it couldn't find that element (which is why it's "nil:NilClass"). Make sure you're using the right twitter name and that your network connection's solid.

By: Marn

Marn — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:32:07 +0000

I get the following error when I try to run the script: /Users/marn/Library/Scripts/sync-status-with-twitter.rb:39: undefined method `text' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError) Any ideas?

By: Bart

Bart — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:38:04 +0000

Thanks! It still works flawlessly!

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 22:43:18 +0000

You open Terminal again, type crontab -e to edit the crontab, delete the line you entered with this tip (you can press 'dd' to delete the current line, for example), then save and quit ('zz').

By: Bart

Bart — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:26:36 +0000

so i mean, how do you stop the crontab-thingie? Thanks!

By: Bart

Bart — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:25:17 +0000

Thanks, works perfect! And what’s the procedure to stop the syncing? Just in case…