xbtweet is a small script that works with your XBMC to tweet what you're playing and show your timeline.

You can read more about xbtweet and other projects on my blog.

Features

The list of features available in this beta:

• Auto startup and background run
• Supports both OAuth and plain authentication with Twitter
• Automatic tweets of what you're playing: movies, tv shows or music
• Recieve your timeline notifications during playback, you choose how and when
• Supports Proxy accounts, you can tweet to one account and get notifications from another
• Integrate xbtweet with Facebook, learn how.
• Skin integration, you can click and tweet while watching a video or playing music
• Keyboard/Controller integration, tweet with the press of a button
• Fully customizable automatic tweets and tags, learn how.
• You can include links for more information about what you're playing (imdb/thetvdb.com/last.fm)
• Supports exclusions of items from tweets, protect what you don't want to share with other ;)
• Optimized Twitter API support
• Supported languages: English and Swedish for now.

Installation Instructions

Please follow the instructions below carefully:

• Download the zip package from the downloads section
• Unzip the package into your XBMC script folder. During the intallation of XBMC you were asked to choose if you wish to store your data in your user's folder or program files. based on this you'll need to locate your scripts folder.
• If you chose to use program files, then usually it can be found at c:\program files\xbmc\scripts. If you chose to use the user's data folder, please see below.
• Windows XP (User's data folder): c:\documents and settings\<YOUR USERNAME>\application data\xbmc\scripts
• Windows Vista/7 (User's data folder): c:\users\<YOUR USERNAME>\appdata\roaming\xbmc\scripts
• Once everything is unzipped, navigate within your XBMC to the scripts page and open the script's settings page.
• It's important that you make sure the settings are to your liking before running the script for the first time
• If you choose to use OAuth (recommended) for your authentication with Twitter, the script will ask you to enter the Twitter PIN number on the first execution. You just need to run the script.
• Skin integration: for more information on how to integrate xbtweet to your skin, please click here.

XBOX and Linux users

Due to some limitations with the browsing capabilities of your stations and xbmc's embedded python version, you may experience issues with obtaining a PIN code from Twitter. In order to workaround this I created the following page, after you'll complete the OAuth process, please input the PIN into your xbtweet dialog when prompted.

More Information

You can find more information about this script and others at xbmcblog.com.

Screen Shots

Current Development Stage

I've reached a point where I believe xbtweet is a stable script that provides outgoing Twitter notifications. It covers most basic features and I now moved on to further development based on request. Therefore, if you think that more can be done and you want to suggest more features, please forward your comments to: itay.weinberger@gmail.com