atomitter

README

Introduction

Atomitter is a Twitter bot that syncs an Atom/RSS/JSON feed to a twitter account.

• Demo: https://rehantdaphedar.xyz/posts/feed.atom is synced with this Twitter account.

Installation

Dependencies

• go

Building

Just build using standard the golang toolchain:

git clone https://git.sr.ht/~thecashewtrader/atomitter
cd atomitter
go build .

Usage

Obtain the config file and edit it:

mkdir -p ~/.config/atomitter
wget https://git.sr.ht/~thecashewtrader/atomitter/blob/main/config.example.yaml -O ~/.config/atomitter/config.yaml

Then, simply run atomitter to sync.

Configuration

The config file is stored in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/atomitter/config.yaml.

• consumer_key: Your Twitter Consumer Key
• consumer_secret: Your Twitter Consumer Secret
• token: Your Twitter Token
• token_secret: Your Twitter Token Secret
• feed_url: Link to the feed to sync
• username: Twitter username of the account you wish to sync to
• format: String describing how to format your tweet

Also see config.example.yaml.

Auto Sync

You can use cronjobs to automatically sync your feed after a certain time. For example, to sync your feed once every day:

0 0 * * * atomitter

Limitations

Currently, Atomitter doesn't work properly for Twitter accounts with more than 200 tweets.