Description

This is a really micro Tweet Sentiment Analyser that checks for negative tweets to a particular handle most likely yours and sends them to your slack channel for you to take action.

Setup

Google Natural Language API

• Create a new project on your google cloud dashboard This is assuming you have GCP all set up.
• Enable the Google Cloud Natural Language API
• Click on Credentials and create a new API key

Slack

• Create a new slack app
• Select Incoming Webhooks and activate it
• Click on Add new webhook to team
• Select channel to post messages to and click on Authorize when done.
• Copy the generated Webhook URL to a safe place.

Webtask

• Sign up to webtask.io and create a new empy function on your dashboard.
• Copy over the code from the app.js file into your new function
• You'd have to create two new secrets
  • nlpApiKey: which contains the api key for the nlp api
  • slackWebhookURL: Slack webhook api url

IFTTT

• Create a new IFTT applet
• Search and select Twitter
• Select the New mention of you card on the next page
• Search and select the WebHooks service
• Select the Make a web request
• In the URL section enter [WEBTASK_URL]?text=<<<{{Text}}>>>&from=<<<{{UserName}}>>>&url=<<<{{LinkToTweet}}>>> where [WEBTASK_URL] is the Url generated for your function by webtask.io and make sure the method is set to GET.