Installer x-cli avec Homebrew, winget

Liens du projet

• Page d'accueil

Commandes et alias

• x

Historique du projet

The original project documentation for `t` says it was created after the twitter Ruby gem removed its command-line interface in version 0.5.0. The `t` project was offered as a successor, but as a clean-room implementation containing none of the original CLI code.

The current x-cli README describes the tool as a command-line interface for the X API, with OAuth 1.0a and OAuth 2.0 authentication, v1.1 and v2 API support with fallback behavior, streaming commands, shell completion, and YAML configuration. It also preserves migration behavior from the older ~/.trc profile file to the newer ~/.xrc default.

Historique d'adoption

The project became popular because it made Twitter scriptable from ordinary shells: posting, listing, searching, following, and account management could be composed with pipes and other Unix tools. The current GitHub repository still shows thousands of stars and hundreds of forks, reflecting its long-lived CLI niche.

Modes d'utilisation

Historically, users ran commands such as `t authorize`, `t update`, `t whois`, and list-management commands after creating Twitter API credentials. The current x-cli command tree focuses on `x` commands for accounts, search, streams, delete/list/set operations, and profile management.

Configuration is part of the project's continuity: the current README states that ~/.xrc is the default profile config, while ~/.trc is read as a fallback and migrated on write. That preserves the older `t` ecosystem while moving the command name and API model toward X.

Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

x-cli is package-nerd interesting as a social-network CLI that survived API churn, branding churn, and authentication changes. It is the kind of package users install not for a daemon or library, but to make a web platform automatable from shell scripts.

Chronologie

• twitter gem 0.5.0: The original gem CLI is removed, leading to the separate clean-room `t` project.
• 2010s: `t` becomes a RubyGems-installed Twitter command-line power tool.
• 2020s: The current x-cli repository presents the tool as an X API CLI with OAuth 1.0a/OAuth 2.0 and API v1.1/v2 support.
• Current line: ~/.xrc becomes the default profile config while ~/.trc remains a migration fallback.

Related projects

• The twitter Ruby gem is the ancestor context for the original CLI removal. The current x-cli README also identifies x-api as the client library layer for HTTP, authentication, and retry primitives.

Sources

• https://github.com/sferik/x-cli#readme
• https://sferik.github.io/t/
• https://sferik.github.io/twitter/