Twitter

@actionsflow/trigger-twitter

This is a twitter trigger of Actionsflow. You can watch yours or the other twitter user's updates by using this trigger.

This is an official trigger, you don't need to install it manually.

View trigger on Github

Usage

on:
twitter:
api: statuses/user_timeline
auth:
consumer_key: ${{ secrets.TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY }}
consumer_secret: ${{ secrets.TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET }}
access_token: ${{ secrets.TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
access_token_secret: ${{ secrets.TWITTER_ACCESS_SECRET }}
params:
screen_name: theowenyoung

Options

  • api, optional, default is statuses/user_timeline, for now, you can use search/tweets, statuses/user_timeline, statuses/mentions_timeline, favorites/list

  • auth, required, twitter API authentication, you should get it from Twitter Developers App

    auth:
    consumer_key: ${{ secrets.TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY }}
    consumer_secret: ${{ secrets.TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET }}
    access_token: ${{ secrets.TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
    access_token_secret: ${{ secrets.TWITTER_ACCESS_SECRET }}
  • params, optional, fetch twitter API params, See search/tweets, statuses/user_timeline, statuses/mentions_timeline, favorites/list.

    For statuses/user_timeline, you must provide screen_name field, for example:

    params:
    screen_name: theowenyoung
    exclude_replies: true,
    include_rts: true,
    tweet_mode: "extended",
  • fetchAllResultsAtFirst, optional, boolean, if fetch all results at first run, the default is false, if true, it will fetch all results of tweet. This is only available when api is statuses/user_timeline

  • maxCount, optional, number, if fetchAllResultsAtFirst is true, you can use maxCount to limit the number of fetched results, such like 1000.

You can use General Config for Actionsflow Trigger for more customization.

Outputs

This trigger's outputs will be the item of the following results.

An statuses/user_timeline outputs example:

{
"created_at": "Wed Aug 12 02:01:00 +0000 2020",
"id": 1293366847476134000,
"id_str": "1293366847476133888",
"full_text": "test tweets...",
"truncated": false,
"display_text_range": [0, 30],
"entities": {
"hashtags": [],
"symbols": [],
"user_mentions": [],
"urls": []
},
"source": "<a href=\"https://mobile.twitter.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter Web App</a>",
"in_reply_to_status_id": null,
"in_reply_to_status_id_str": null,
"in_reply_to_user_id": null,
"in_reply_to_user_id_str": null,
"in_reply_to_screen_name": null,
"user": {
"id": 1241294513575878700,
"id_str": "1241294513575878656",
"name": "Owen Young",
"screen_name": "TheOwenYoung",
"location": "",
"description": "love workflows",
"url": null,
"entities": {
"description": {
"urls": []
}
},
"protected": false,
"followers_count": 2,
"friends_count": 52,
"listed_count": 1,
"created_at": "Sat Mar 21 09:24:27 +0000 2020",
"favourites_count": 4,
"utc_offset": null,
"time_zone": null,
"geo_enabled": false,
"verified": false,
"statuses_count": 28,
"lang": null,
"contributors_enabled": false,
"is_translator": false,
"is_translation_enabled": false,
"profile_background_color": "F5F8FA",
"profile_background_image_url": null,
"profile_background_image_url_https": null,
"profile_background_tile": false,
"profile_image_url": "http://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1241298955742273536/E26HEH2o_normal.jpg",
"profile_image_url_https": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1241298955742273536/E26HEH2o_normal.jpg",
"profile_link_color": "1DA1F2",
"profile_sidebar_border_color": "C0DEED",
"profile_sidebar_fill_color": "DDEEF6",
"profile_text_color": "333333",
"profile_use_background_image": true,
"has_extended_profile": true,
"default_profile": true,
"default_profile_image": false,
"following": false,
"follow_request_sent": false,
"notifications": false,
"translator_type": "none"
},
"geo": null,
"coordinates": null,
"place": null,
"contributors": null,
"is_quote_status": false,
"retweet_count": 0,
"favorite_count": 0,
"favorited": false,
"retweeted": false,
"lang": "zh"
}

You can use the outputs like this:

on:
twitter:
api: user_timeline
auth:
consumer_key: ${{ secrets.TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY }}
consumer_secret: ${{ secrets.TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET }}
access_token: ${{ secrets.TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
access_token_secret: ${{ secrets.TWITTER_ACCESS_SECRET }}
params:
screen_name: theowenyoung
jobs:
print:
name: Print
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: Print Outputs
env:
text: ${{ on.twitter.outputs.full_text }}
run: |
echo text: $text

For the other API outputs, please see search/tweets, statuses/user_timeline, statuses/mentions_timeline, favorites/list.