Are you tired of manually tweeting your Dev.to articles? Do you wish there was a way to automate the process? Well, with the help of Python and the tweepy library, you can create a Twitter bot that will tweet all of your articles with just a few lines of code.
First, you'll need to create a Twitter account and obtain the necessary API keys and tokens to access the Twitter API. You can find instructions on how to do this here: https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api/getting-started/getting-access-to-the-twitter-api.
Next, we'll use the tweepy library to connect to the Twitter API and authenticate our bot. Add the following code to your Python script:
import tweepy
# Replace these with your own API keys and tokens
consumer_key = "YOUR_CONSUMER_KEY"
consumer_secret = "YOUR_CONSUMER_SECRET"
access_token = "YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN"
access_token_secret = "YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET"
# Authenticate the bot
auth = tweepy.OAuth1UserHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret, access_token, access_token_secret)
api = tweepy.API(auth)
Now that our bot is authenticated, we can use the Dev.to API to fetch a list of our articles. We'll use the requests library to make a GET request to the Dev.to API and retrieve the list of articles. Add the following code to your script:
import requests
def get_articles():
# Fetch a list of our Dev.to articles
username = "ashishpandey"
url = f"https://dev.to/api/articles?username={username}"
response = requests.get(url)
return response.json()
With our list of articles in hand, we can now write a function that will tweet each article. We'll use the tweepy library to post the articles as tweets. Add the following code to your script:
def tweet_articles(articles):
# Tweet each article
for article in articles:
title = article["title"]
link = article["url"]
tweet_text = f"{title}\n{link}"
api.update_status(tweet_text)
Finally, we can put everything together by calling the get_articles and tweet_articles functions. Add the following code to your script:
# Get the list of articles
articles = get_articles()
# Tweet all articles
tweet_articles(articles)
And that's it! With just a few lines of code, we've created a Twitter bot that will tweet all of your Dev.to articles. Happy tweeting!"
Full code :
import tweepy
import requests
# Replace these with your own API keys and tokens
consumer_key = "YOUR_CONSUMER_KEY"
consumer_secret = "YOUR_CONSUMER_SECRET"
access_token = "YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN"
access_token_secret = "YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET"
# Authenticate the bot
auth = tweepy.OAuth1UserHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret, access_token, access_token_secret)
api = tweepy.API(auth)
def get_articles():
# Fetch a list of our Dev.to articles
username = "ashishpandey"
url = f"https://dev.to/api/articles?username={username}"
response = requests.get(url)
return response.json()
def tweet_articles(articles):
# Tweet each article
for article in articles:
title = article["title"]
link = article["url"]
tweet_text = f"{title}\n{link}"
api.update_status(tweet_text)
# Get the list of articles
articles = get_articles()
# Tweet all articles
tweet_articles(articles)
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