its-wednesday

README

Captain, it's Wednesday!

This tiny script automated that reminds me when it's Wednesday and asks me if I want to tweet this meme:

It only asks, at maximum, once in the morning, once in the afternoon and once on the evening — and it stops asking when it has already tweeted in any given Wednesday.

Requirements

1. Make sure you have Go 1.16 (or newer)
2. Right now, go-twitter doesn't have all we need, so we're using a local branch to compile:
   1. Clone go-twitter to the parent directory (one level up from this repo's directory)
   2. Git pull drswork's branch there

Once this PR is merged, everything will be way easier.

Also I have not tested in Windows.

Basic usage

1. Create an application and get your API keys from Twitter's Developer platform
2. Create environment variables with the keys:
   • WEDNESDAY_CONSUMER_KEY
   • WEDNESDAY_CONSUMER_SECRET
   • WEDNESDAY_ACCESS_TOKEN
   • WEDNESDAY_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET
3. Run with go run main.go cache.go

How I use it (opinionated)

I integrated in a way that when it's Wednesday my computer asks me if I want to tweet the meme.

First, I have generated the binary in a directory that is already in my PATH, for example:

go build -o /usr/local/bin/it-wednesday

Then I call this program for every new terminal session. In my case, I Fish, so I added this block to my .config/fish/config.fish:

set -x WEDNESDAY_CONSUMER_KEY …
set -x WEDNESDAY_CONSUMER_SECRET … 
set -x WEDNESDAY_ACCESS_TOKEN …
set -x WEDNESDAY_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET …
its-wednesday

If you use Bash or Zsh, feel free to send a PR with compatible instructions :)