twittermost
twittermost is a Mattermost bot that will announce the tweets of the tweeps it follows on twitter.
Installing
First, install twittermost
$ go install github.com/bwesterb/twittermost@latest
Create a Twitter user (say @twitteruser) and a Mattermost user (say matteruser) for the bot. Register a new app on twitter to get consumer key, consumer secret, access token and access secret.
Copy config.json.template
to config.json
in the conf
folder. Now edit it with the information obtained from Twitter.
Then run with twittermost
.
Install Using Docker
In case you want to run twittermost in a docker container, there is a way to do it.
Create a Twitter user (say @twitteruser) and a Mattermost user (say matteruser) for the bot. Register a new app on twitter to get consumer key, consumer secret, access token and access secret.
Then clone (or download) this project.
Copy config.json.template
to config.json
in the conf
folder. Now edit it with the information obtained from Twitter.
Then run
docker build . -t twittermost
docker run -it --rm --name twittermost -v "$PWD"/conf:/go/src/app/conf twittermost
Usage
The twittermost bot will respond to command by trusted users. To add trusted users, use:
@matteruser trust username
Like a chick which hasn't seen its mother yet, the twittermost bot will trust anyone initially, until it's told who to trust.
@matteruser distrust username
Removes the given Mattermost user from the trusted users.@matteruser follow twitterhandle
Follow the given user on twitter.@matteruser unfollow twitterhandle
Unfollow the given user on twitter.@matteruser check
Force a twitter timeline check for updates.@matteruser clear
Removes all error messages in the debug channel.