What’s more important today for a website than relaying your new blog posts to the social networks, especially Twitter ?
Lots of unmaintained or unreliable third-parties web services offer this feature. I tried and was really disappointed using them.
Feed2tweet, forked from rss2twitter, now offer a self-hosted, documented, easy-to-read Python application to automatically transfer the new posts in your RSS feed to the social network Twitter.
Have a look at the official documentation on Readthedocs in order to install, configure and use Feed2tweet.
It is as easy as creating a Twitter app, then writing a feed2tweet.ini file with the following lines:
[twitter] consumer_key=ml9jaiBnf3pmU9uIrKNIxAr3v consumer_secret=8Cmljklzerkhfer4hlj3ljl2hfvc123rezrfsdctpokaelzerp access_token=213416590-jgJnrJG5gz132nzerl5zerwi0ahmnwkfJFN9nr3j access_token_secret=3janlPMqDKlunJ4Hnr90k2bnfk3jfnwkFjeriFZERj32Z [rss] uri: https://www.mycoolwebsite.com/rss [hashtaglist] several_words_hashtags_list: severalwordshashtaglist.txt
Then just launch feed2tweet:
$ feed2tweet -c /path/to/feed2tweet.ini
The first version 0.1 is now available from Github. If it helps you, Github stars are appreciated 🙂
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