💁🏻 Automating gr2m/helpdesk, Episode IV
📅 Monday, May 31, 2021
🕐 12:00pm 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 will finish up the automation around tweets, following the past two episodes #20 and #20 and #12

Outline

1. Quick review of what I've build so far with tweets in episode II and episode III
2. Create, update, and delete scheduled tweets as necessary
3. Run the automated tweets script whenever a new show issue is created or updated

Preparation

• Tweet format for 30min announcement

  📯  Starting in 30 minutes
  
  💁🏻‍♂️  Helpdesk: automate tweets for shows (like this one!)
  🔴  Watch live at https://twitch.tv/gregorcodes
  
  https://github.com/gr2m/helpdesk/issues/21
  

• Tweet format for live announcement

  🔴  Now live at https://twitch.tv/gregorcodes
  
  💁🏻‍♂️  Helpdesk: automate tweets for shows (like this one!)
  
  https://github.com/gr2m/helpdesk/issues/21
  

• 30 minute announcement tweet
• start of show tweet
• comment on issue
• recording available tweet

Recording

Shownotes

• I mentioned the docs on https://github.com/gr2m/twitter-together/ to sign up for a Twitter developer account and for Twitter's ads program, which is required for scheduled tweets
• I still didn't finish the twitter integration because none of the community Twitter API SDKs support the endpoints to update or delete scheduled tweets. I will have to do it myself I guess 🤷🏼