Why don't you tweet?

Send a tweet from a GitHub actions workflow!

Installation

To allow GitHub Actions to send tweets programmatically, you'll need to:

• Create a new Twitter application from your developer console.
• Turn on the Read and Write permissions

• Configure the authentication keys and tokens for your Twitter app as secrets in your repository.

• Add the Usage section code to your workflow's.

Done in 10 minutes 🎉

Secret Configuration

This configuration lets you to tweet using your Twitter account.

• TWITTER_CONSUMER_API_KEY: the application consumer key.
• TWITTER_CONSUMER_API_SECRET: the application consumer secret.
• TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN: your user access token, generated from the developer console.
• TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET: your user access token secret, generated from the developer console.

Usage

Copy & Customize the following code into your workflow:

name: tweet-release

# More triggers
# https://docs.github.com/en/actions/learn-github-actions/events-that-trigger-workflows#release
on:
  release:
    types: [published]

jobs:
  tweet:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: Eomm/why-don-t-you-tweet@v1
        if: ${{ !github.event.repository.private }}
        with:
          # GitHub event payload
          # https://docs.github.com/en/developers/webhooks-and-events/webhooks/webhook-events-and-payloads#release
          tweet-message: "New ${{ github.event.repository.name }} release ${{ github.event.release.tag_name }}! Try it will it is HOT! ${{ github.event.release.html_url }} #nodejs #release"
        env:
          # Get your tokens from https://developer.twitter.com/apps
          TWITTER_CONSUMER_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.TWITTER_CONSUMER_API_KEY }}
          TWITTER_CONSUMER_API_SECRET: ${{ secrets.TWITTER_CONSUMER_API_SECRET }}
          TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
          TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET: ${{ secrets.TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET }}

This workflow is ready to use within the releasify CLI! Give it a try!

Development this Action

Read the developer documentation.

License

Copyright Manuel Spigolon, Licensed under MIT.