matchai / bird-box

🐦💬 Update a gist to contain your latest tweet

bird-box

Update a pinned gist to contain the latest tweets of a user

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📌✨ For more pinned-gist projects like this one, check out: https://github.com/matchai/awesome-pinned-gists

Setup

Prep work

1. Create a new public GitHub Gist (https://gist.github.com/)
2. Create an access token with the gist scope and copy it. (https://github.com/settings/tokens/new)
3. Create a new Twitter app (https://developer.twitter.com/en/apps/create)
4. On the App page for your newly created app, generate an "Access token & access token secret" and copy all keys and tokens.

Project setup

1. Fork this repo

2. Edit the environment variables in .github/workflows/schedule.yml:

   • TWITTER_USER: The user handle of the twitter account.
   • GIST_ID: The ID portion from your gist url: https://gist.github.com/matchai/6d5f84419863089a167387da62dd7081.

3. Go to the repo Settings > Secrets

4. Add the following environment variables:

   • GH_TOKEN: The GitHub access token generated above.
   • TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY: Your Twitter consumer API key.
   • TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET: Your Twitter consumer secret.
   • TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_KEY: Your Twitter access token key.
   • TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET: Your Twitter access token secret.