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retcon: A cross-platform Twitter client

Features

  • Multiple accounts
  • DM support
  • Post tweets, reply, re-tweet, favourite, follow, etc.
  • Display inline tweet replies, optionally loading more on demand
  • Filtering of incoming and stored tweets
  • Highlighting and hiding of tweets
  • Image preview (can be hidden on a per-tweet basis)
  • Optionally unhiding images previews only temporarily
  • Image display and download
  • User profile display
  • Lookup of user timelines, favourites, followers, etc.
  • Multi-window, tabbed and/or split view
  • Custom combinations of timelines/etc. per panel
  • Assign tweets to custom panels manually or by filter
  • Customisable display formatting
  • Configurable network and storage/caching behaviour
  • Connection failure resilience
  • Emoji display support
  • ...

URLs

This project is currently hosted at:
https://github.com/JGRennison/retcon

This project was previously hosted at:
https://bitbucket.org/JGRennison/retcon

Windows binaries are available at:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/retcon

Documentation

See doc/ directory.
This includes documentation for:

  • Filter syntax and examples
  • Tweet flags
  • Tweet display format codes
  • Command line switches

Build dependencies

  • SQLite v3.6 or later
  • PCRE
  • wxWidgets v2.8 series
  • zlib
  • libcurl v7.21.6 or later with SSL
  • Boost.Iterator
  • libvlc (except on Windows)

Building

Should build out of the box with make and make install.
Requires a relatively recent gcc (4.7.1 or later).
Building for Windows involves a lot of hoop-jumping. See doc/building_on_windows.txt for details.
Windows users are encouraged to download pre-built binaries from Sourceforge (see above).

Credits

The following libraries are bundled with the source:

License:

GPLv2

Source: README.md, updated 2015-08-26