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Get What Done

Twitter bot @getwhatdone that tweets platitudes to get things done. Heavily inspired by cool-robot-pals/getreadyfor.

Get Skullduggery Done

How it works

Every hour job.js is run. This loads the HTML template into headless Chrome using Puppeteer, inserts a random noun from noun-json, takes a screenshot and tweets it using node-twitter.

Running locally

  1. Create .env with the Twitter bot credentials: 
    TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY=XXX
TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET=XXX
TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_KEY=XXX
TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET=XXX
  2. Install dependencies: 
    npm install
  3. Run the job: 
    npm run job

There is also a placeholder webapp app.js to occupy the Heroku web process. To run this:

npm start

Then visit http://localhost:3000/.

Deploying to Heroku

  1. Create app: 
    heroku create getwhatdone --region eu --buildpack heroku/nodejs
heroku buildpacks:add jontewks/puppeteer
  2. Configure app for Twitter: 
    heroku config:set TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY=XXX \
    TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET=XXX \
    TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_KEY=XXX \
    TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET=XXX
  3. Deploy app: 
    git push heroku master
  4. Schedule job: 
    heroku addons:create scheduler:standard
heroku addons:open scheduler
    Add job to run npm run job every hour

Listing tweets

To list all previous tweets:

npm run list

Example output:

Id                  | Created At               | Text
--------------------+--------------------------+---------------------------------
1210271071955570688 | 2019-12-26T18:48:03.000Z | Get earthworm done https://t.co/wg1Eg9FCAP
1210263078572580865 | 2019-12-26T18:16:18.000Z | Get gather done https://t.co/2UCVPP0RAV
1210262953158758400 | 2019-12-26T18:15:48.000Z | Get brother done https://t.co/k9unIt5Hk6

The Id can then be used to obtain the tweet URL.