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diff --git a/Content/posts/2021-06-25-Blog2Twitter-P1.md b/Content/posts/2021-06-25-Blog2Twitter-P1.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3c9bb83 --- /dev/null +++ b/Content/posts/2021-06-25-Blog2Twitter-P1.md @@ -0,0 +1,98 @@ +--- +date: 2021-06-25 00:08 +description: Converting Posts to Twitter Threads +tags: Python, Twitter, Eh +--- + +# Posting Blog Posts as Twitter Threads Part 1/n + +Why? Eh, no good reason, but should be fun. + +## Plan of Action + +I recently shifted my website to a static site generator I wrote specifically for myself. +Thus, it should be easy to just add a feature into it to check for new posts, split the text into chunks for Twitter threads and post them on Twitter. +I am not handling lists or images right now. + +## Time to Code + +First, the dependency: tweepy for tweeting. + +`pip install tweepy` + +```python +import os +import tweepy + +consumer_key = os.environ["consumer_key"] +consumer_secret = os.environ["consumer_secret"] + +access_token = os.environ["access_token"] +access_token_secret = os.environ["access_token_secret"] + +auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret) +auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret) + +api = tweepy.API(auth) +``` + +The program need to convert the blog post into text fragments. + +It reads the markdown file, removes the top YAML content, checks for headers and splits the content. + +```python +tweets = [] + +first___n = 0 + +with open(sample_markdown_file) as f: + for line in f.readlines(): + if first___n <= 1: + if line == "---\n": + first___n += 1 + continue + line = line.strip() + line += " " + if "#" in line: + line = line.replace("#","") + line.strip() + line = "\n" + line + line += "\n\n" + try: + if len(tweets[-1]) < 260 and (len(tweets[-1]) + len(line)) <= 260: + tweets[-1] += line + else: + tweets.append(line) + except IndexError: + if len(line) > 260: + print("ERROR") + else: + tweets.append(line) +``` + +Every status update using tweepy has an id attached to it, for the next tweet in the thread, it add that ID while calling the function. + +For every tweet fragment, it also append 1/n. + +```python +for idx, tweet in enumerate(tweets): + tweet += " {}/{}".format(idx+1,len(tweets)) + if idx == 0: + a = None + a = api.update_status(tweet) + else: + a = api.update_status(tweet,in_reply_to_status_id=a.id) + print(len(tweet),end=" ") + print("{}/{}\n".format(idx+1,len(tweets))) +``` + +Finally, it replies to the last tweet in the thread with the link of the post. + +```python +api.update_status("Web Version: {}".format(post_link)) +``` + +## What's Next? + +For the next part, I will try to append the code as well. +I actually added the code to this post after running the program.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/posts/2021-06-25-Blog2Twitter-P1.html b/docs/posts/2021-06-25-Blog2Twitter-P1.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7393f4b --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/posts/2021-06-25-Blog2Twitter-P1.html @@ -0,0 +1,119 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html> +<html lang="en"> +<head> + + <link rel="stylesheet" href="/assets/main.css" /> + <link rel="stylesheet" href="/assets/sakura.css" /> + <meta charset="utf-8"> + <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> + <title>Hey - Post</title> + +</head> +<body> + <nav style="display: block;"> +| +<a href="/">home</a> | +<a href="/about/">about/links</a> | +<a href="/posts/">posts</a> | +<a href="/publications/">publications</a> | +<a href="/repo/">iOS repo</a> | +<a href="/feed.rss">RSS Feed</a> | +</nav> + +<main> + <h1>Posting Blog Posts as Twitter Threads Part 1/n</h1> + +<p>Why? Eh, no good reason, but should be fun.</p> + +<h2>Plan of Action</h2> + +<p>I recently shifted my website to a static site generator I wrote specifically for myself. +Thus, it should be easy to just add a feature into it to check for new posts, split the text into chunks for Twitter threads and post them on Twitter. +I am not handling lists or images right now.</p> + +<h2>Time to Code</h2> + +<p>First, the dependency: tweepy for tweeting.</p> + +<p><code>pip install tweepy</code></p> + +<div class="codehilite"><pre><span></span><code><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">os</span> +<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">tweepy</span> + +<span class="n">consumer_key</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">os</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">environ</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s2">"consumer_key"</span><span class="p">]</span> +<span class="n">consumer_secret</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">os</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">environ</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s2">"consumer_secret"</span><span class="p">]</span> + +<span class="n">access_token</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">os</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">environ</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s2">"access_token"</span><span class="p">]</span> +<span class="n">access_token_secret</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">os</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">environ</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s2">"access_token_secret"</span><span class="p">]</span> + +<span class="n">auth</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">tweepy</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">OAuthHandler</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">consumer_key</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">consumer_secret</span><span class="p">)</span> +<span class="n">auth</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">set_access_token</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">access_token</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">access_token_secret</span><span class="p">)</span> + +<span class="n">api</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">tweepy</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">API</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">auth</span><span class="p">)</span> +</code></pre></div> + +<p>The program need to convert the blog post into text fragments.</p> + +<p>It reads the markdown file, removes the top YAML content, checks for headers and splits the content.</p> + +<div class="codehilite"><pre><span></span><code><span class="n">tweets</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">[]</span> + +<span class="n">first___n</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">0</span> + +<span class="k">with</span> <span class="nb">open</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">sample_markdown_file</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="n">f</span><span class="p">:</span> + <span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">line</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="n">f</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">readlines</span><span class="p">():</span> + <span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">first___n</span> <span class="o"><=</span> <span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">:</span> + <span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">line</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="s2">"---</span><span class="se">\n</span><span class="s2">"</span><span class="p">:</span> + <span class="n">first___n</span> <span class="o">+=</span> <span class="mi">1</span> + <span class="k">continue</span> + <span class="n">line</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">line</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">strip</span><span class="p">()</span> + <span class="n">line</span> <span class="o">+=</span> <span class="s2">" "</span> + <span class="k">if</span> <span class="s2">"#"</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="n">line</span><span class="p">:</span> + <span class="n">line</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">line</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">replace</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">"#"</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="s2">""</span><span class="p">)</span> + <span class="n">line</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">strip</span><span class="p">()</span> + <span class="n">line</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s2">"</span><span class="se">\n</span><span class="s2">"</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="n">line</span> + <span class="n">line</span> <span class="o">+=</span> <span class="s2">"</span><span class="se">\n\n</span><span class="s2">"</span> + <span class="k">try</span><span class="p">:</span> + <span class="k">if</span> <span class="nb">len</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">tweets</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">])</span> <span class="o"><</span> <span class="mi">260</span> <span class="ow">and</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="nb">len</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">tweets</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">])</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="nb">len</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">line</span><span class="p">))</span> <span class="o"><=</span> <span class="mi">260</span><span class="p">:</span> + <span class="n">tweets</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">+=</span> <span class="n">line</span> + <span class="k">else</span><span class="p">:</span> + <span class="n">tweets</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">append</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">line</span><span class="p">)</span> + <span class="k">except</span> <span class="ne">IndexError</span><span class="p">:</span> + <span class="k">if</span> <span class="nb">len</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">line</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">></span> <span class="mi">260</span><span class="p">:</span> + <span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">"ERROR"</span><span class="p">)</span> + <span class="k">else</span><span class="p">:</span> + <span class="n">tweets</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">append</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">line</span><span class="p">)</span> +</code></pre></div> + +<p>Every status update using tweepy has an id attached to it, for the next tweet in the thread, it add that ID while calling the function.</p> + +<p>For every tweet fragment, it also append 1/n.</p> + +<div class="codehilite"><pre><span></span><code><span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">idx</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">tweet</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="nb">enumerate</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">tweets</span><span class="p">):</span> + <span class="n">tweet</span> <span class="o">+=</span> <span class="s2">" </span><span class="si">{}</span><span class="s2">/</span><span class="si">{}</span><span class="s2">"</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">format</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">idx</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="nb">len</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">tweets</span><span class="p">))</span> + <span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">idx</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">:</span> + <span class="n">a</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="kc">None</span> + <span class="n">a</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">api</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">update_status</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">tweet</span><span class="p">)</span> + <span class="k">else</span><span class="p">:</span> + <span class="n">a</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">api</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">update_status</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">tweet</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">in_reply_to_status_id</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">a</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">id</span><span class="p">)</span> + <span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nb">len</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">tweet</span><span class="p">),</span><span class="n">end</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">" "</span><span class="p">)</span> + <span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">"</span><span class="si">{}</span><span class="s2">/</span><span class="si">{}</span><span class="se">\n</span><span class="s2">"</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">format</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">idx</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="nb">len</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">tweets</span><span class="p">)))</span> +</code></pre></div> + +<p>Finally, it replies to the last tweet in the thread with the link of the post.</p> + +<div class="codehilite"><pre><span></span><code><span class="n">api</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">update_status</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">"Web Version: </span><span class="si">{}</span><span class="s2">"</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">format</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">post_link</span><span class="p">))</span> +</code></pre></div> + +<h2>What's Next?</h2> + +<p>For the next part, I will try to append the code as well. +I actually added the code to this post after running the program.</p> + +</main> + + +<script src="assets/manup.min.js"></script> +<script src="/pwabuilder-sw-register.js"></script> +</body> +</html>
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