This is a simple script to check RSS from a blog and publish new posts to twitter.

Copy config.yaml.dist to config.yml

cp config.yaml.dist config.yml

Replace placeholders with your data. They should be self-explanatory, but you can read some explanations in a moment.

twitter:
    consumer_key: twitter_api_consumer_key
    consumer_secret: twitter_api_consumer_secret
    access_token: twitter_api_access_token
    access_token_secret: twitter_api_access_token_secret

feed:
    name: name_of_the_site
    uri: absolute_uri_to_feed
    days: 1

twitter.*: credentials for your registered app in twitter.

feed.name: the name of the site you are publishing. feed.uri: absolute uri of the feed. For example: 'https://franiglesias.github.io/feed.xml' feed.days: number of days before today since you want to retrieve posts from the RSS. Typical setup is 1, allowing the announcement of post published the same day the script runs.

The script will publish all posts found.

Run:

./blog-to-twitter

Use another config file:

./blog-to-twitter -c path/to/config.yml

Dry run. Don't publish tweets

./blog-to-twitter --dry

You can override some data in configuration by passing command line options.

--days: overrides the number of days since new posts are selected