Twitter PowerShell Script

 1: #############################################################

 2: ## Add or Remove a friend with the given ID

 3: #############################################################

 4: Function AddOrRemove-TwitterFriend (  [string] $ID,

 5:                                                                     [string] $Command,

 6:                                                                     [string] $Username,

 7:                                                                     [string] $Password)

 8: {

 9:   [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::Expect100Continue = $false

 10:  

 11:   if ($ID -ne $null) {

 12:     $request =

 13:       [System.Net.WebRequest]::Create("http://twitter.com/friendships/$Command/$ID.xml")

 14:     $request.Credentials = new-object System.Net.NetworkCredential($Username, $Password)

 15:     $request.Method = "POST"

 16:     $request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"

 17:     $formdata = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetBytes( 'follow=true'  )

 18:     $requestStream = $request.GetRequestStream()

 19:     $requestStream.Write($formdata, 0, $formdata.Length)

 20:     $requestStream.Close()

 21:     $response = $request.GetResponse()

 22:  

 23:     $reader = new-object System.IO.StreamReader($response.GetResponseStream())

 24:        $result = $reader.ReadToEnd()

 25:     $reader.Close()

 26:     return $result

 27:   }

 28: }

 29:  

 30: #############################################################

 31: ## Get the current rate limit status for account or IP address

 32: #############################################################

 33: Function Get-TwitterLimitStatus ( [string] $Username, [string] $Password )

 34: { 

 35:   if ($WebClient -eq $null) {

 36:     $Global:WebClient=new-object System.Net.WebClient

 37:   }

 38:   if ($Username) {

 39:     $WebClient.Credentials =

 40:       (New-Object System.Net.NetworkCredential -argumentList $Username, $Password)

 41:   }

 42:  

 43:   $URL = "http://twitter.com/account/rate_limit_status.xml"

 44:   return $WebClient.DownloadString($URL)

 45: }

 46:  

 47: #############################################################

 48: ## Get all the friends / followers of the authenticated user or the specific ID

 49: #############################################################

 50: Function Get-TwitterFriendOrFollower (  [string] $Username,

 51:                                                                     [string] $Password,

 52:                                                                     [string] $Command,

 53:                                                                     [string] $ID )

 54: { 

 55:   if ($WebClient -eq $null) {

 56:     $Global:WebClient=new-object System.Net.WebClient

 57:   }

 58:   if ($Username) {

 59:     $WebClient.Credentials =

 60:       (New-Object System.Net.NetworkCredential -argumentList $Username, $Password)

 61:   }

 62:   if ($ID) {

 63:     $URL="http://twitter.com/statuses/$Command/$ID.xml?page="

 64:   }

 65:   else {

 66:     $URL="http://twitter.com/statuses/$Command.xml?page="

 67:   }

 68:   $page = 1

 69:   $friends = @()

 70:   do {

 71:     $rawResponse = $WebClient.DownloadString($url+$Page)

 72:     $response = (([xml]($rawResponse)).users.user)

 73:     if ($response -ne $null) {

 74:       foreach ($u in $response) {

 75:         $friends += $u["screen_name"].psbase.InnerText

 76:       }

 77:     }

 78:     $page ++

 79:   } while ($response.count -gt 0)

 80:   return $friends

 81: }

 82:  

 83: #############################################################

 84: # Add your username and password here

 85: #############################################################

 86: $Username = "MyUsername"

 87: $Password = "MyPassword"

 88:  

 89: [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::Expect100Continue = $false  

 90:  

 91: ## Show the current rate limiet status for this account / IP

 92: Get-TwitterLimitStatus $Username $Password

 93:  

 94: ## Get a complete list of friends (ie people you follow)

 95: $friends = Get-TwitterFriendOrFollower $Username $Password "friends"

 96:  

 97: ## Get a complete list of followers (people who follow you)

 98: $followers = Get-TwitterFriendOrFollower $Username $Password "followers"

 99:  

 100: ## Generate a list of people that follow you but you don't follow them

 101: $notfriended = @()

 102: foreach ($item in $followers) { if (!($friends -contains $item)) { $notfriended += $item } }

 103:  

 104: ## Generate a list of people you follow but who don't follow you

 105: $notfollowed = @()

 106: foreach ($item in $friends) { if (!($followers -contains $item)) { $notfollowed += $item } }

 107:  

 108: ## This will add a follow for all the people in your notfriended list

 109: ##foreach ($item in $notfriended) { AddOrRemove-TwitterFriend $item "create" $Username $Password }