HowToTweetEveryCommit

have you ever wanted to lose all of your followers by tweeting every single commit message to the world?

adapted from: https://gist.github.com/kylefrost/f3841e76749dc64f4b5e

changed to do the actual twitter post in python using Tweepy because the oauth-sign and http-post install from tar.gz was giving me problems and python is just easier. hopefully this makes it a bit more usable for someone else. enjoy!

Get To Tweeting

1. Get your developer tokens from https://apps.twitter.com/ and make sure your permissions are set to "Read and Write"

https://www.slickremix.com/docs/how-to-get-api-keys-and-tokens-for-twitter/

2. Fill out the .profiles.ini file with as many different twitter account keys as you would like.

[default]
CONSUMER_KEY=your_key
CONSUMER_SECRET=my_secret_key
ACCESS_TOKEN=my_token
ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET=my_secret_token

[kevindurantactual]
CONSUMER_KEY=your_key
CONSUMER_SECRET=my_secret_key
ACCESS_TOKEN=my_token
ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET=my_secret_token

[kevindurantfanacct]
CONSUMER_KEY=your_key
CONSUMER_SECRET=my_secret_key
ACCESS_TOKEN=my_token
ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET=my_secret_token

2. run pip install -r requirements.txt to install dependencies (its just tweepy and configparser),

3. Run python start_tweeting.py default to tweet from the account associated with the keys listed under default in .profiles.ini

4. When prompted select the folder of the repository you are interested in tweeting out commits for.

5. Watch as all your fake friends unfollow you.

Verify it Worked

• Go to the local repository that you selected to tweet from and find the .git folder. Note that most operating systems have folders that start with "." hidden. To unhide folders on Mac OSX press Command+Shift+.

• Look for 2 files named post-commit and post_commit_hook_autogen.py in the repository's git hooks directory: your_repo/.git/hooks/

• Open the post_commit_hook_autogen.py file and verify that the Twitter API credentials you supplied are present in the config dictionary.

def main():
  """
  Get these values from https://apps.twitter.com/
  See more detailed instructions in the README.md
  """
  cfg = { 
    "consumer_key"        : "some-random-str-thing",
    "consumer_secret"     : "and-another-one-but-secretive",
    "access_token"        : "a-long-string-too",
    "access_token_secret" : "a-secretive-long-string" 
    }

When You Get Tired or Your Follower Count Goes Down to 0

Run the following command:

bash stop_tweeting.sh

Supply the path to the repository that you had previously tweeted from.

Contributing

Its still pretty early but if you have suggestions, thoughts, feedback, criticism, etc feel free to open a PR or submit an Issue.

Thanks in advance 😊

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