Shasteriskt

I don't know what to say... I might have inadvertently written a mildly annoying spam bot for Twitter and/or Identica and other stuff of that nature.

Example:

./shasteriskt 'myusername:mysecretpassword' 2 'Bored!' 'Annoyed!'

will post two messages to each of the services (defined in the script, Twitter and Identica by default.

The only use for this I can think of is bumping up your Cursebird stats.

Also, your login and password are not necessarily safe when using this script.

Code:

 
 1 #!/bin/bash 
 2 # 
 3 # Shasteriskt 
 4 # 
 5 # A quick and dirty way to generate a ton of spam to  
 6 # microblogging serivces. This is a script of low-grade 
 7 # evil. 
 8 # 
 9 # Parameters: 
10 #   USERNAME:PASSWORD - credentials to services 
11 #   NUMBER - number of repeats 
12 #   WORDS - a list of words to post 
13  
14 # Depends: 
15 #   curl 
16 # 
17 # Author: 
18 #   Konrad Siek <konrad.siek@gmail.com> 
19 # 
20 # License information: 
21 # 
22 # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify 
23 # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 
24 # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or 
25 # (at your option) any later version. 
26 # 
27 # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 
28 # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 
29 # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the 
30 # GNU General Public License for more details. 
31 # 
32 # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 
33 # along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. 
34 # 
35 # Copyright 2010 Konrad Siek 
36  
37 URLs=( \ 
38     'http://twitter.com/statuses/update.json' \ 
39     'http://identi.ca/api/statuses/update.json' \ 
40 ) 
41  
42 if [ "$#" -lt 4 ] 
43 then 
44     echo "Usage: $0 USER:PASSWORD NUMBER WORD [ WORD [...] ]" 
45     exit 1 
46 fi 
47  
48 credentials=$1; shift 
49 total=$1; shift 
50  
51 words=( ) 
52 counter=0 
53 while [ -n "$1" ] 
54 do 
55     words[$counter]="$1" 
56     counter=$(($counter+1)) 
57     shifto
58 done 
59  
60 for i in $(seq 1 $total) 
61 do 
62     for w in "${words[@]}" 
63     do 
64         for url in "${URLs[@]}" 
65         do 
66             curl --basic \
67                 --user "$credentials" \
68                 --data status="$w" "$url" 
69         done 
70     done 
71 done 

The code is also available at GitHub as bash/shasteriskt.