putt

putt is a node.js module that lets you easily output text in lots of fun ways. It wraps a bunch of other libraries to make this as simple as possible.

var putt = require('putt');
putt().speak("This is spoken aloud by your computer");
putt().desktop_notify("This appears as a desktop notification");

Supported output formats:

• Speech synthesizer (by say.js)
• Desktop notification (by node-growl)
• POST request (by restler)
• TODO: Email (by nodemailer)
• More coming soon... (SMS/call - twilio API, twitter/fb, ???)

Install

First, install Node.JS and NPM if you haven't already. Then, just cd into your project folder and run:

npm install putt

Usage

Speech output

For speak to work:

• Mac: it should just work
• Linux: install Festival and see what voices you have available (e.g. voice_rab_diphone)

Desktop notification output

For desktop_notify output to work, install:

• Mac: growl, including the growlnotify extra
• Linux: notify-send with sudo apt-get install libnotify-bin or equivalent

POST request output

TODO

Email output

TODO

Twitter

First, create a new Twitter application, and under the "Settings" tab, you will also want to give your app "Read and write" permissions so that we can write a tweet. Then, click the button at the bottom of the "Details" tab to generate an access token and secret.

Next, provide those keys and secrets to putt when you call it:

putt({
    consumer_key: "your consumer key",
    consumer_secret: "your consumer secret",
    access_token: "your access token",
    access_token_secret: "your access token secret"
}).tweet("This text will be tweeted by your account");