edvakf

Update Twitter Status From Opera Address Bar

Thursday, 24. July 2008, 21:44:36

Just add a new search engine to your Opera and configure as below.

Then type

tw blah_blah_your_status_blah_blah

into your address bar.

*Tips*

1. ~~According to the twitter API documentation, the posting status has to be encoded with UTF-8, but I can do it with iso-8859-15, which Opera writes to search.ini by default.~~
There was a slight change on the API, apparently. You have to do the above with UTF-8. Since there is no GUI way to do it on Opera, the easiest way is to right click on Twitter's Status update field and choose "Create Search...", then input the above!

2. The callback will be an XML data, which will be shown ugly-ly in your Opera. ~~But if you set the default view as "mobile" (or go to http://m.twitter.com once) then the xml page will be directed automatically to your friends' timeline!~~

**UPDATE 2008-12-19**

Try this UserJS to redirect the XML page to twitter home.

// ==UserScript==
// @include http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml
// ==/UserScript==
location.href='http://twitter.com/'

But you need to enable opera:config#opera:config#Always Load User JavaScript

**TILL HERE**

3. OperaAddressBar is now officially supported as a Twitter client.

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Comments

David Håsäther # 30. July 2008, 22:03

Really nice. I've seen others using the address bar "trick", but it's cool that you made it a registered app.

Miladin Miladinoski # 18. September 2008, 10:59

Thanks a lot man! It works great!

But it doesn't show up as from "OperaAdressBar" and yes, I used the POST and typed the input like this in it:

status=%s&source=operaadressbar

Can you please help me solve my problem?

Thanks.

Phred # 18. September 2008, 13:06

Originally posted by White_Eagle:

status=%s&source=operaadressbar

spelling is crucial. operaaddressbar != operaadressbar

Miladin Miladinoski # 19. September 2008, 14:52

Thanks man, it works now.

Anonymous # 25. September 2008, 05:11

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Anonymous # 25. September 2008, 05:11

aMiLe*A1eX^_^ writes:

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Anonymous # 25. September 2008, 05:11

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Charlie # 6. October 2008, 18:05

I'm getting "403 Forbidden: The server understood the request, but is refusing to fulfill it." I'm logged in, so what am I doing wrong?

Edit: had "status" instead of "statuses" in the string. My bad. *sigh*

Olenk # 21. January 2009, 19:34

thank you one moment please

zikzakatak # 13. February 2009, 19:15

ok it works but every time hit send it takes me to another page https://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml with info about my update...

is there a way to stop this from coming up eveytime i send a twitt?

Charlie # 13. February 2009, 20:18

Sweet redirect script!

edvakf # 15. February 2009, 20:16

@zikzakatak

Look at the **UPDATE 2008-12-19** part in this article. You can use the UserJS to redirect the XML page to twitter home (or whatever page you like).