markhobson / getwhatdone

Getting things done with platitudes.

Get What Done

Twitter bot @getwhatdone that tweets platitudes to get things done. Heavily inspired by cool-robot-pals/getreadyfor.

How it works

Every hour job.js is run. This loads the HTML template into headless Chrome using Puppeteer, inserts a random noun from noun-json, takes a screenshot and tweets it using node-twitter.

Running locally

1. Create .env with the Twitter bot credentials:

   TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY=XXX
   TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET=XXX
   TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_KEY=XXX
   TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET=XXX
   

2. Install dependencies:

   npm install
   

3. Run the job:

   npm run job
   

There is also a placeholder webapp app.js to occupy the Heroku web process. To run this:

npm start

Then visit http://localhost:3000/.

Deploying to Heroku

1. Create app:

   heroku create getwhatdone --region eu --buildpack heroku/nodejs
   heroku buildpacks:add jontewks/puppeteer
   

2. Configure app for Twitter:

   heroku config:set TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY=XXX \
       TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET=XXX \
       TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_KEY=XXX \
       TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET=XXX
   

3. Deploy app:

   git push heroku master
   

4. Schedule job:

   heroku addons:create scheduler:standard
   heroku addons:open scheduler
   

   Add job to run npm run job every hour

Listing tweets

To list all previous tweets:

npm run list

Example output:

Id                  | Created At               | Text
--------------------+--------------------------+---------------------------------
1210271071955570688 | 2019-12-26T18:48:03.000Z | Get earthworm done https://t.co/wg1Eg9FCAP
1210263078572580865 | 2019-12-26T18:16:18.000Z | Get gather done https://t.co/2UCVPP0RAV
1210262953158758400 | 2019-12-26T18:15:48.000Z | Get brother done https://t.co/k9unIt5Hk6

The Id can then be used to obtain the tweet URL.