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://github.com/JGRennison/retcon/releases

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 GitHub (see above).

Credits

The following libraries are bundled with the source:

• utf8proc
• rapidjson
• twitcurl (modified)
• SimpleOpt (modified)
• cpp-btree (modified)
• twemoji (partial)

License:

GPLv2