Drafts Directory: Tweet Storm

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Posted by agiletortoise, Last update over 1 year ago

NOTE: This action no longer functions due to policy changes at Twitter that are out of our control. Visit the Twitter integration guide for details.

Divide up a draft into separate tweets by paragraph. Build a preview of the tweets as they will be posted and display it. If “Continue” tapped from preview, post each of the tweets as a threaded tweet storm.

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// set identifier for Twitter credentials you wish to use
const twitterIdentifier = "";
// max characters per tweet. Leave room for /n.
const maxCharacters = 248;

// Utility functions
function divideTweets(input) {
	var paragraphs = input.split("\n\n");
	return paragraphs;
}
function countString(current, total) {
	return ` (${current}/${total})`;
}
const urlRegex = /((([A-Za-z]{3,9}:(?:\/\/)?)(?:[-;:&=\+\$,\w]+@)?[A-Za-z0-9.-]+|(?:www.|[-;:&=\+\$,\w]+@)[A-Za-z0-9.-]+)((?:\/[\+~%\/.\w-_]*)?\??(?:[-\+=&;%@.\w_]*)#?(?:[\w]*))?)/g;
function isTweetValid(tweet) {
	var unlinked = tweet.replace(urlRegex, "00000000000000000000000");
	return unlinked.length <= maxCharacters && unlinked.length > 0;
}
function areAllTweetsValid(tweets) {
	if (tweets.length == 0) { return false; }
	for (var tweet of tweets) {
		if (!isTweetValid(tweet)) {
			return false;
		}
	}
	return true;
}

function htmlSafe(s) {
	return s.replace(/</g, "&lt;").replace(/\n/g, "<br>\n");
}

// build HTML preview display the resulting tweets.
var html = ["<html><head>"];
html.push("<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width, initial-scale=1\">");
html.push("<style>");
html.push("body { background: #666; color: #444; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system; margin: 1em auto; max-width:360px; }");
html.push("p {padding: 1em; background-color: #eee; }");
html.push("p.error{ background-color: #FFCDDD; color: maroon; font-weight: bold; padding: 1.5em; }\n");
html.push("p.invalid{ color: maroon; }\n");
html.push("p.reply { border-left: 5px solid #bbb; }");
html.push("p.preview{ font-style:italic; background-color: #444; color: #aaa; font-size: .9em; }\n");
html.push("span.note{ background-color: maroon; color: white; font-weight: bold; border-radius:3px; padding: .25em; font-size: .8em; }\n");
html.push("</style>");
html.push("</head><body>");

const tweets = divideTweets(draft.content);
var isValid = areAllTweetsValid(tweets);

if (!isValid) {
	html.push("<p class='error'>");
	html.push("This draft cannot be posted as a tweet storm. Be sure to divide the draft into paragraphs of " + maxCharacters + " characters or shorter.");
	html.push("</p>");
}
else {
	html.push("<p class='preview'>");
	html.push("Preview tweets as they will be posted below. Tap continue to post the tweet storm, cancel to go back without posting");
	html.push("</p>");
}

if (tweets.length > 0) {
	var ct = 1;
	for (var tweet of tweets) {
		if (isTweetValid(tweet)) {
			html.push("<p class='valid" + (ct > 1 ? " reply" : "") + "'>");
			html.push(htmlSafe(tweet));
			html.push(countString(ct, tweets.length));
			html.push("</p>");
		}
		else {
			html.push("<p class='invalid" + (ct > 1 ? " reply" : "") + "'>");
			html.push("<span class='note'>" + tweet.length + " characters</span> ");
			html.push(htmlSafe(tweet));
			html.push(countString(ct, tweets.length));
			html.push("</p>");
		}
		ct++;
	}
}
else {
	html.push("<p>Nothing to tweet</p>");
}

html.push("</body></html>");
draft.setTemplateTag("html", html.join("\n"));

htmlpreview
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[[html]]
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script

// If we reach this script
// We have a valid set of tweets ready
// in the `tweets` const, we just need to post them...

// a few base values
const updateURL = "https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/update.json";

// sleep method to use to avoid rate limiting
const sleep = ms => new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, ms))

if (isValid) {
	var twitter = Twitter.create(twitterIdentifier);
	var ct = 1;
	var inReplyTo = "";
	
	var hasError = false;
	for (var tweet of tweets) {
		const tweetContent = tweet + countString(ct, tweets.length);
		
		var params = {
			"status": tweetContent
		}
		// if this is the first tweet
		// set the reply information to thread tweet storm
		if (ct != 1) {
			params["in_reply_to_status_id"] = inReplyTo;
			console.log(inReplyTo);
		}
		// make API request
		var response = twitter.request({
			"url": updateURL,
			"method": "POST",
			"parameters": params
		});
		if (response.statusCode == 200 || response.statusCode == 201) {
			var id = response.responseData.id_str;
			var sn = response.responseData.user.screen_name
			var tweetURL = `http://twitter.com/${sn}/status/${id}`;
			inReplyTo = id;
			console.log("Tweet posted: " + tweetURL);
		}
		else {
			console.log("Error: " + response.error);
			hasError = true;
			break;
		}

		ct++;
		sleep(400); // avoid rate limiting with little pause
	}
	if (!hasError) {
		console.log("Tweet storm posted");
	}
	else {
		console.log("Tweet storm failed");
		context.fail();
	}
}
else {
	context.cancel();
}

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