RSS2Twitter
A node.js utility to parse RSS feeds and tweet them via the Twitter API.
Installation
- Clone this repository
- Install node.js (any LTS version from 6 is supported)
npm i
Usage
You need to provide environment variables containing the details of your Twitter API keys:
TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY
TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET
TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN
TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET
node index.js {RSS-URL} [dry-run flag]
On first run, an SQLite3 database tweets.db will be created in the current
working directory. It contains the links from the RSS feed and the date-time
they were tweeted (to prevent duplicates).
To prevent historical entries from the RSS feed being tweeted (e.g. if you are migrating from another solution, or just want to avoid spamming your followers), provide a second parameter - at the moment, anything will do.
It is recommended to run rss2twitter from a shell script, and it is
likely that you will want to call this script from a cron job. Be aware
of Twitter's API limits - at the time of writing they limit the number of
tweets within a 15-minute window.