bebraw / blog-utils

Misc. utils making it easier to write blog posts (MIT)

blog-utils

Blog utils for fetching tweets, composing posts etc.

Fetchers

tweet_urls

The tool fetches tweets based on given user and date.

Usage: ./fetch/tweet_urls.js twitter_config.js date > tweets.json

Configuration:

module.exports = {
    user: 'twitter user', // optional
    auth: {
        key: 'get via twitter dev site',
        secret: 'get via twitter dev site',
        token: 'get via twitter dev site',
        tokenSecret: 'get via twitter dev site'
    }
};

titles

The tool fetches url titles.

Usage: ./fetch/titles.js < stripped_tweets.json > titled_tweets.json

Resolvers

urls

The tool resolves Twitter urls to their full form (ie. strips bitly and such).

Usage: ./resolve/urls.js < tweets.json > resolved_tweets.json

Strippers

url_parameters

The tool strips url parameters.

Usage: ./strip/url_parameters.js < resolved_tweets.json > stripped_tweets.json

Generators

html_list

The tool generates a HTML list.

Usage: generate/html_list.js < titled_tweets.json > list.html

md_list

The tool generates a Markdown list.

Usage: generate/md_list.js < titled_tweets.json > list.md

Example

The tools above may be combined using piping. See below:

fetch/tweet_urls.js twitter_config.js "April 1, 2014 01:00:00" | resolve/urls.js | strip/url_parameters.js | fetch/titles.js > data.json

License

MIT.