Blog: Semi-automated Twitter integration
So, the blog now can semi-automatically1 post blog updates to my Twitter feed.
The script is infuriatingly simple (Github): thanks to Twitter API Python implementation python-twitter, the relevant part simplifies to one-liner:
status = api.PostUpdate(message)
And thus by running ./blag_tweet.py
after the Jekyll build and upload phase (./blag_deploy.sh
), the CLI tool automagickally makes a Tweet about the specified blog post. Neat? (Guess so, at least if I were a bit more active on Twitter…)
1: It’s not an automatic deploy hook, even if it could be; but I like to run the script explicitly by myself …