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Platform: Twitter

The Twitter platform is using https://github.com/PLhery/node-twitter-api-v2

Set up the platform

The Twitter api was being rebuild when Elon Musk bought it and broke it. Part of it now runs on OAuth1, and part of it on Oauth2, and you have to configure both. Hopefully, one day, the 'O1' keys will not be needed anymore.

Create a new App in your twitter account

  • go to https://developer.twitter.com/
  • create a few developer account
  • you get a project and an app, rename those
  • set up User authentication settings
  • From the Oauth 01 settings
    • generate Api Key and secret
    • save these in your global .env as
      • FAIRPOST_TWITTER_OA1_API_KEY
      • FAIRPOST_TWITTER_OA1_API_KEY_SECRET
    • generate access token and secret, make sure it is read and write
    • save these in your global .env as as
      • FAIRPOST_TWITTER_OA1_ACCESS_TOKEN
      • FAIRPOST_TWITTER_OA1_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET
  • From the OAuth 2 settings
    • save FAIRPOST_TWITTER_CLIENT_ID in your global .env
    • save FAIRPOST_TWITTER_CLIENT_SECRET in your global .env

Connect the platform to a user

Enable the platform

  • Add 'twitter' to your FEED_PLATFORMS in your users storage.json

Get an OAuth2 Access Token for your twitter account

This token should last forever (?)

  • call ./fairpost.js @userid connect-platform --platform=twitter
  • follow instructions from the command line

Test the platform

  • call ./fairpost.js @userid test-platform --platform=twitter

Connect the platform to another user

One fairpost user can only manage one feed. If you create a second user, you can use the same app to manage a different feed. OAuth2 allows you to enable the app for your second account, but the OAuth1 part is tied to your first account and requires you to specify an 'additional_owner' for the uploaded media.

Add a second user

  • call ./fairpost.js create-user --userid=foo

Get an OAuth2 Access Token for your other page

  • call ./fairpost.js @foo connect-platform --platform=twitter
  • follow instructions from the command line

Test the other installation

  • call ./fairpost.js @foo test-platform --platform=twitter

Set the 'additional owner'

  • from the previous test-platform result, copy the oauth2:id
  • set this as the TWITTER_OA1_ADDITIONAL_OWNER in your users storage.json

More user settings

  • TWITTER_PLUGIN_SETTINGS - a json object describing / overwriting the plugins used to prepare posts

Random documentation

https://github.com/twitterdev/twitter-api-typescript-sdk/blob/main/src/gen/Client.ts#L889

https://github.com/twitterdev/Twitter-API-v2-sample-code/blob/main/Manage-Tweets/create_tweet.js#L106