peter279k / social-sync

This is the simplest way to sync the feed for the multiple social websites.

social-sync

This is the simplest way to sync the feed for the multiple social websites.

social website lists

• Facebook
• Twitter
• Plurk

Scenario

• Using the e-mail client to send the mail to the cloudmailin address.
• The web service is to receive the mail and process the contents.
• The web service will post the feed to the specified social websites after checking the mail content is successful.

Request the Facebook and Twitter developer APP

• Facebook
• Twitter

Usage

• Set the cloudmailin service.
• Set the receive.php to the receiving mail endpoint.
• Visit the facebook_user_token.php from web browser to get the short-lived user access token and add it in api-key.ini.
• Refer this link to get the long-lived token.
• Remember that the Facebook user access token is valid for 60 days.After 60 days, you have to request the new access token from facebook_user_token.php.
• In order to build the service easily, we use the Composer to manage the required packages.
• Firstly, clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/peter279k/social-sync.git.
• Then download the composer.phar: curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php.
• Then install the required packages: php composer.phar install.
• Create the api-key.ini in this project root path.

[Facebook]
app_id="facebook_id"
app_secret="facebook_secret"
user_access_token="facebook_user_token"
[Twitter]
api_key="api_key"
[Plurk]
user_name="user_name"
user_password="password"
user_id="user_id"

• Complete the service building. Have fun!
• P.S: The PHP program in examples folder just present the posting feed examples.
• The social api lists references.

• Twitter API reference
• Facebook API reference
• Plurk Bot sample code