We’ve just released version 0.9.6 of twurl.

What is twurl?

twurl is our command-line utility for testing the Twitter APIs. twurl is similar to curl , but with built-in support for Twitter’s authentication methods. It supports Twitter API v1.1, v2 early access, Twitter Developer Labs, and the Twitter Ads API.

What’s new / what’s fixed?

This is a minor bugfix and enhancement release:

  • more graceful handling of invalid options (without stack traces)
  • removal of support for xAuth (unsupported for several years; use OAuth 1.0A or a bearer token)

Upgrading

twurl is written in Ruby, and distributed through RubyGems .

To install:

$ gem install twurl

To upgrade:

$ gem update twurl

You can confirm the version of twurl in use on your system:

$ twurl -v
0.9.6

Note that twurl requires a minimum Ruby version of 2.4.0.

Learn more

There are some useful tutorials available to learn more about twurl.

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