https://github.com/enova/hacknight

IFTTT, reddit, twitter hacknight!
https://github.com/enova/hacknight

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IFTTT, reddit, twitter hacknight!

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/enova/hacknight
• Owner: enova
• Created: 2015-03-25T22:59:38.000Z (almost 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2015-09-15T21:58:15.000Z (over 9 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-03-26T18:23:15.923Z (9 months ago)
• Size: 217 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 27
• Forks: 3
• Open Issues: 1
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  • Readme: README.md

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## [![enova](http://i.imgur.com/5aGFxNT.png)](http://www.enova.com) SOA hacknight

We're going to use [IFTTT](ifttt.com) to grab posts on reddit, send them to a fake a Wordpress application ([ifttt](https://github.com/enova/ifttt)), then to an external application to play with ([reddit_to_twitter](https://github.com/enova/reddit_to_twitter)). 

Below is an example of taking new posts from `r/ruby` and posting them to your Twitter account.

---

#### reddit_to_twitter

1. Sign up for IFTTT/Twitter/Reddit. You can use your personal accounts if you want.

  - [https://ifttt.com/join](http://ifttt.com/join)

  - [https://twitter.com/signup](https://twitter.com/signup)

  - [https://www.reddit.com/login](https://www.reddit.com/login)

2. Register a new app to Twitter

  - [https://apps.twitter.com/](https://apps.twitter.com/)

  - Create New App

    - Name: `whatever you want`

    - Description: `whatever you want`

    - Website: `http://google.com/` (will change in step 3)

    - Callback URL: `leave blank`

  - Save application

  - Select application

    - Click on Permissons tab and change to `Read and Write`

    - Click on the Keys and Access Tokens tab. Generate an `Access Token`

    - Copy your generated keys for below

  

2. Install Git/Git for Windows and Heroku Toolbelt

  - [http://git-scm.com/download/win](http://git-scm.com/download/win)

  - [https://toolbelt.heroku.com/windows](https://toolbelt.heroku.com/windows)

  

3. Clone down the repos:

  - `git clone https://github.com/enova/ifttt`

  - `git clone https://github.com/enova/reddit_to_twitter`

3.  Configure [reddit_to_twitter](https://github.com/enova/reddit_to_twitter/) app and deploy to Heroku

  - `cd reddit_to_twitter`

  - Change [server.rb](https://github.com/enova/reddit_to_twitter/blob/master/server.rb#L13) with your Twitter secret keys from above

  - `git add .`

  - `git commit -m 'added keys'`

  - `heroku create YOURNAME-ruby` (replace YOURNAME with... your name)

  - `git push heroku master`

  - Update the Website setting on the Twitter app you created (step 2) with `YOURNAME-ruby.herokuapp.com`

  

5. Configure [ifttt](https://github.com/enova/ifttt/) app and deploy to Heroku

  - Edit [app.js](https://github.com/enova/ifttt/blob/master/app.js#L14) and change `var heroku_app`  with your heroku URL for the reddit_to_twitter application (i.e `YOURNAME-ruby.herokuapp.com`)

  - `git add .`

  - `git commit -m 'added heroku url'`

  - `heroku create YOURNAME-node` (replace YOURNAME with... your name)

  - `git push heroku master`

6. Add [IFTTT.com](http://ifttt.com) channels

  - When logged in, go to  `Channels`

  - Select `WordPress`

    - Blog URL: `heroku URL for ifttt application` (i.e `YOURNAME-node.herokuapp.com`)

    - Username: `first name`

    - Password: `anything`

  - Activate 

  - Go back to `Channels`

  - Select `Reddit`

  - Activate

  - Login with Reddit

  

7. Create a new IFTTT Recipe

  - Go to `My Recipes`

  - Click `Create a Recipe`

  - Click `This`

    - Select `Reddit` as Trigger Channel

      - `Any new post in a subreddit` as a Trigger

      - `ruby` or any subreddit you want

  - Click `That`

    - Select `WordPress` as Action Channel

      - `Create a post` as Action

        - Title: `whatever you want` (this is what you will tweet)

        - Body: `whatever you want`

    - Create Recipe

8. Manually Trigger the Recipe 

  - Press `Check` in your My Recipes Page of IFTTT

  - Check the log to see if it ran successfully

9. Annoy your followers with automatically posted tweets.

#### debugging

You've finished the above steps, yet you're still not seeing any tweets? 

- Use the command `heroku logs` inside of your app folders. This will show you the server log from your heroku apps. 

  - In the `ifttt` app log, if you aren't seeing any lines that say **POST**, it's likely that your IFTTT Wordpress Trigger isn't pointing to the right app. Ensure it's pointing to your name app (YOURNAME-node.herokuapp.com)

  - In the `reddit_to_twitter` app log, if you aren't seeing any lines that say **POST** check your `ifttt` app and ensure the heroku_url is set to your ruby app (YOURNAME-ruby.herokuapp.com).