Twitter Card Proxy

The above screenshot is the single motivation behind this tool: To get nicer looking Twitter cards when announcing GitHub-releases. GitHub provides some Twitter metadata, but it is for your account only, and just linking to the release page gets you a rather blend Twitter card.

Install

Download a binary from releases.

twittercard-proxy is a Go application, so you can also easiliy compile it yourself or intall it is via go get:

 go get -v github.com/bep/twittercard-proxy

Use

▶ ./twittercard-proxy -h
Usage of ./twittercard-proxy:
  -f string
    	The JSON filename with twitter cards (default "./twittercards.json")
  -http string
    	The HTTP listen address (default "0.0.0.0:1414"

To add or modify Twitter cards, just edit the JSON file and send a SIGHUP signal to the server process:

kill -s SIGHUP <process-id>

File format

The id below will become the path and target is the proxy target.

The rest are Twitter Card properties, see https://dev.twitter.com/cards/types/summary-large-image.

[
	{
		"id": "hugo-0.24",
		"site": "@GoHugoIO",
		"creator": "@bepsays",
		"image": "https://s11.postimg.org/jsd2aq1er/hugo-24-poster.png",
		"title": "The Revival of the Archetypes!",
		"description": "In the new Hugo 0.24, archetype files are Go templates with all funcs and the full .Site available, for all content formats.",
		"target": "https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/tag/v0.24"
	}
]