I’ve just put together a short script for automatically taking a webcam pic then uploading it to Twitter. Yes, I know what you’re thinking, no I don’t know why either. I had help from other places that I found through googling. Here it is in case you want to try it out: #!/bin/bash # Script to automate posting of webcam images to twitpic IMGDIR=”/location_to_save_webcam_pics”STAMP=`date +%m%d%Y_%s`IMG=”$IMGDIR/”webcam_”"$STAMP”.jpeg”USERNAME=”twitter_username”PASSWORD=”twitter_password” # Don’t forget to escape special chars with “\”MESSAGE=”Webcam snapshot, `date`” # Take picture from webcamTAKE=`streamer -o $IMG`echo “$TAKE” # Upload to twitpic using curlcurl -F “username=$USERNAME” -F “password=$PASSWORD” -F “message=$MESSAGE” -F media=@”$IMG” http://twitpic.com/api/uploadAndPost I really need to find a way to post code on blogger. The next step is that this script can be added to a cron job and made to feed random pics at intervals. I’m now trying to think … Read entire article »