Twit Army

12/12/2008

Custom "source" fields in Laconica posts using Curl

Some of my friends on the Twit Army have been asking how I was able to override the source string when posting microblogs. Here's an example of what I mean.

This is a normal post from the web


Notice that it says "from web".

This is a post from curl with the custom source


In this case it's "from a land down under ♫"

This is easily done with the command line tool "Curl" and the Laconica API

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