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Synching My Blog with Twitter

Continuing on with RSSBus scripts showing how to pipe Google Calendar to Twitter and Flickr to Twitter, here's my last Twitter RSBScript.  Here's a script to pipe any existing RSS feed to Twitter.  I wanted to sync my blog with my twitter, so now everytime I post a new blog entry, it will be added to my Twitter status.  Here's the url:

http://www.textbox1.com/apps/twitterminder/blog_to_twitter.rsb?
     blog_url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2FTextBoxOne
     &twitter_password=mypassword
     &twitter_user=mytwittername.


Of course you'll need to replace the querystring arguments blog_url, twitter_user, and twitter_password with your own values.

Here's what the actual script looks like, if you'd rather run it on your own server:

 

<rsb:info strict="true" title="Blog2Twitter" description="If new blog posts exist, they are tweeted.  Feed items are the Twitter responses.">   
  <input name="blog_url" req="true" />   
  <input name="twitter_user" req="true" />   
  <input name="twitter_password" req="true" /> 
</rsb:info>  

<rsb:call op="feedGet?feed=[blog_url | urlencode]" diff="blog2twitter-[twitter_user].xml">   
  <!-- set the twitter text to the blog post title -->   
  <rsb:set attr="twitter.text" value="New blog post: [rss:title]" />    

  <!--generate a tinyurl -->   
  <rsb:set attr="twitter.tinyurlapi" value="http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=[rss:link]" />  
  <rsb:call op="httpGet?url=[twitter.tinyurlapi]">     
    <rsb:set attr="twitter.tinyurl" value="[rss:description]" />   
  </rsb:call>      

  <!-- append the tinyurl to the twitter text, and update twitter -->   
  <rsb:set attr="twitter.status" value="[twitter.text] [twitter.tinyurl]" />    
  <rsb:call op="twitterStatusUpdate" in="twitter">     
    <rsb:push />   
  </rsb:call> 
</rsb:call>

 

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