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diff --git a/docs/feed.rss b/docs/feed.rss index 4b21037..ec767e7 100644 --- a/docs/feed.rss +++ b/docs/feed.rss @@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ <title>Navan's Archive</title> <description>Rare Tips, Tricks and Posts</description> <link>https://web.navan.dev/</link><language>en</language> - <lastBuildDate>Thu, 27 May 2021 00:22:21 -0000</lastBuildDate> - <pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2021 00:22:21 -0000</pubDate> + <lastBuildDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2021 02:25:20 -0000</lastBuildDate> + <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2021 02:25:20 -0000</pubDate> <ttl>250</ttl> <atom:link href="https://web.navan.dev/feed.rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/> @@ -57,6 +57,109 @@ <item> <guid isPermaLink="true"> + https://web.navan.dev/posts/2021-06-25-Blog2Twitter-P1.html + </guid> + <title> + Posting Blog Posts as Twitter Threads Part 1/n + </title> + <description> + Converting Posts to Twitter Threads + </description> + <link>https://web.navan.dev/posts/2021-06-25-Blog2Twitter-P1.html</link> + <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2021 00:08:00 -0000</pubDate> + <content:encoded><![CDATA[<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> +]]></content:encoded> + </item> + + <item> + <guid isPermaLink="true"> https://web.navan.dev/posts/hello-world.html </guid> <title> |