About

DIY command-line utility to schedule and publish tweets

go get github.com/selvan/turret

Hacking source

Build

git clone github.com/selvan/turret.git
export GOPATH=`pwd`/turret
export PATH=$GOPATH/bin:$PATH
cd turret

# See vendor/ for dependencies

# build turret binary
go build

Test

go test

Using

Create a Twitter App

• Login to your twitter account
• Create an app at https://apps.twitter.com/
• Click on the "Keys and Access Tokens" tab in newly created app
• From "Application Settings" get "Consumer Key" and "Consumer Secret"
• From "Your Access Token" get "Access Token" and "Access Token Secret"

Create CREDENTIALS file

mkdir ~/.turret
touch ~/.turret/CREDENTIALS

Contents of ~/.turret/CREDENTIALS

<Twitter Consumer Key>
<Twitter Consumer Secret>
<Twitter Access Token>
<Twitter Access Token Secret>

Create tweets.csv with schedule date + time and status, in following format

2017-Jan-02 10:30,"Test tweet"
2017-Jan-02 10:33,"Another test tweet"
2017-Jan-03 8:30,"Next day test tweet"
2017-Jan-03 14:15,"Another next day test tweet"

Execution

From within the folder of tweets.csv, execute

turret