twitter/twurl

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1800 stars · 296 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Twurl is a Ruby-based command-line tool that acts like curl but is tailored specifically for the Twitter API, handling OAuth authorization and request signing. It supports multiple access tokens, bearer token authentication, and aliases for common requests.

Use cases

• make authenticated requests to the Twitter API from the command line
• authorize a Twitter app and generate access tokens via OAuth
• test Twitter API endpoints without writing code
• switch between multiple Twitter accounts and client apps
• generate and use bearer tokens for application-only auth
• debug Twitter API responses like curl

When to choose

• you need a quick CLI way to explore or debug the Twitter API
• you want OAuth signing handled for you instead of manually computing signatures
• you manage multiple Twitter apps or accounts and need to switch tokens easily

When to avoid

• you need a full-featured Twitter client library for an application rather than a debugging tool
• you are not working with the Twitter API
• you need a GUI or non-command-line workflow

Facets

cli-tool · maturity maintenance

http-client auth cli developer-tools developer-tools apis social-media cli cross-platform ruby twitter-api oauth curl api-debugging command-line

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