Readme for hs-twitter-0.2.7

= hs-twitter - Programming Twitter from Haskell = 'hs-twitter' is a Haskell package providing a binding to the Twitter API - http://twitter.com/ http://apiwiki.twitter.com/REST+API+Documentation The binding is functionally complete (Christmas 2008), letting you write applications in Haskell that accesses Twitter streams and updates your own. For more info on use, please visit: http://haskell.forkIO.com/twitter = Getting started = For some code samples showing you how to get started using this API binding, have a look at Web/Twitter.hs at the top. = Building and installing = This package is provided in Cabal form, so only thing you need to do to get going is: foo% runghc Setup configure --user # that option being optional foo% runghc Setup build foo% runghc Setup install (or, if you are versed in its ways, "cabal update ; cabal install twitter") The package depends on a bunch of other packages though, so you need to have them built&installed, as well. They are: * HTTP: http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/HTTP * json: http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/json * utf8-string: http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/utf8-string * mime: http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/mime ('cabal install' will take care of chasing these down for you, btw..) = Authentication = When using this API binding to build your own Twitter applications, authentication is required ... = Feedback / question = Please send them to sof@forkIO.com , and I'll try to respond to them as best/quickly as possible. (Or, try to send a tweet 'sigbjorn_finne' :-) ) Enjoy..