💁🏻 Automating gr2m/helpdesk, Episode II
📅 Monday, May 17th, 2021
🕐 noon Pacific Time (in your timezone)
🎙️ no guests
🏷️ Automation

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Automating gr2m/helpdesk

I've laid out the current process for this repository at https://github.com/gr2m/helpdesk/tree/f085060fb98f61a005c9e79df15fdad6466c6a1a#how-i-use-this-repository. It's mostly manual. Time to spice it up a bit with some automation!

In this show, I'll try to automate the tweeting and comments on the issue belonging to the show.

Outline

1. Quick review of what I've build so far in episode I
2. Walkthrough of how I currently do the tweets and comments manually
3. Figure out a way to automate it 😁

Preparation

• Research the Twitter APIs. I have some familiarity with it from https://github.com/gr2m/twitter-together/, but things might have changed, and I'd also like to create a scheduled tweet this time.
• 30 minute announcement tweet
• start of show tweet
• recording available tweet

Recording

Shownotes

• See the first comment for information on how to sign up for a Twitter developer account, how to create an app, and how to sign up for Twitter's Ads API which is needed in order to schedule tweets via the API
• I used the twitter package
• Twitter API docs:
  • create a tweet
  • scheduled tweets
• https://github.com/octokit/webhooks - if you ever look for GitHub event example payloads or schemas