Update Digsby Status automatically when on Twitter update!

July 1, 2008 by Dave
 

As I mentioned in my previous post, I was working on a solution to sync the twitter update status (one-way), with Digsby’s status.  This works great for those that update twitter throughout the day with contact information and such important things.  This is a simple console application that makes use of the DigsbyStatus.exe to update the status.

It isn’t a full XML parser and could probably be broken pretty easily by other RSS feeds, so I wouldn’t recommend trying that.

Using the utility is easy, just make sure the DigTweet.exe and DigsbyStatus.exe are in the same folder, and pull up a command prompt.

DigTweet.exe RssLink

So for example, to sync to my feed, I would enter:

DigTweet.exe http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/14261383.rss

You can find your Twitter RSS feed at the bottom of your personal page (not your homepage, that link will go to a feed of everyone’s status).

If you like, you can make a single-click batch file. Just open notepad and enter the following:

DigTweet.exe http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/14261383.rss

Change the RSS path to your own, and save the file as StartDigTweet.bat. Be careful to not have ‘.txt’ appended to the end by notepad. Click this file and the window will open. You can largely ignore what it’s saying, just minimize it and go on with whatever you’d normally do. Tweets are only updated ONCE, so if it changes the status, and you switch to something else, it won’t be overwritten until a) you restart DigTweet, or b) you have something new in the “top slot” in your feed. (Note: deleting a tweet will cause a sync on the previous tweet)

You can grab a copy of DigTweet today.

Comments

3 Comments on Update Digsby Status automatically when on Twitter update!

  1. Patrick on Mon, 14th Jul 2008 8:02 pm

    2. Hi, first off I’d like to thank you for the awesome work getting the one obscure function that I wanted for Digsby. But is there a way to have this process run in the background rather than have an open command window up constantly? I don’t mind it running, I just like my desktop real estate to be open. Thanks for any help you can provide and keep up the good work.

  2. Dave on Mon, 14th Jul 2008 8:33 pm

    3. Hi Patrick!

    I’ve made some modifications to this for my own use, and I’ll be spinning it off into a GUI program with an icon in the tray.

    Expect an update soon, and thanks for reading my blog!

  3. Dave Amenta .com » Blog Archive » DigTweet Graphical Application on Sun, 20th Jul 2008 3:24 pm

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