tweeting.md

How to Tweet your Posts with Travis

Enable in statie.yaml Config

# statie.yaml
parameters:
    twitter_name: 'TomasVotruba'
    
    # how many days to wait before publishing another Tweet - set 0 days for testing
    twitter_minimal_gap_in_days: 1 
    # how old Tweets should be tweeted, to prevent 2-years old posting
    twitter_maximal_days_in_past: 60 

Setup Twitter API

1. Get Twitter Access Tokens

• Go to apps.twitter.com/app/new
• Login under account you want to publish in and create new Application
• Then go to "Keys and Access Tokens"
• In the bottom click to "Create my access token"

2. Put them to statie.yml.local config:

# statie.yml.local
parameters:
    twitter_consumer_key: 'TgnmCuTSH7gftcWOaFBUXPZzH'
    twitter_consumer_secret: '9oenODoyFsF2mG3zNevUY4HPwG76zGQBTBoWzfHUKCIorR2lJ0'
    twitter_oauth_access_token: '2463691352-mAMTJjo6kowEYddGTPpqdjUTWueQwWrLUdHpB9O'
    twitter_oauth_access_token_secret: 'ltb12xYHdWAHrtPWm5h31T6Rptfa1IyutensM5EsX47Dt'

Never share them publicly, if you don't want to have child porn tweets under your name.

3. Add statie.yaml.local to statie.yaml

 # statie.yml
+imports:
+    - { resource: 'statie.yml.local', ignore_errors: not_found }

4. Add it to .gitignore so it's secret

+statie.yml.local

Write a Tweet

Write "tweet" in your post.

id: 252
title: 'How to Learn Playing Drums from 0'
tweet: 'New post on my blog: How to Learn Playing Drums from 0 #music'

# optional, relative path
tweet_image: '/assets/images/posts/drums.jpg'
---

It's a long journey...

And test it

vendor/bin/statie tweet-post

Is it there? Good, it works and only few steps remain to fully automate this :)

Setup Travis

Now we only put that logic on Travis and we're done.

7. Open Travis for your repository, e.g. https://travis-ci.org/TomasVotruba/tomasvotruba.com

8. Got to More options => Settings

9. In Environment Variables add 4 variables with they values. They are hidden by default, so don't worry:

   • TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY
   • TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET
   • TWITTER_OAUTH_ACCESS_TOKEN
   • TWITTER_OAUTH_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET

10. Then setup cron, so posts are being published even if you don't write and have a break.

11. Go to Cron Jobs → master branch → Daily → Always run → Add

12. Let .travis.yml know, that he should publish it

# .travis.yml
language: php

matrix:
    include:
        - php: 7.3
          env: TWEET=1

script:
    # tweets posts
    - if [[ $TRAVIS_BRANCH == "master" && $TRAVIS_PULL_REQUEST == "false" && $TWEET != "" ]]; then vendor/bin/publish-new-tweet; fi

13. Now you can quit Twitter if you want and you posts will be still there :)