Guffer

Guffer tweets based on a daily schedule. If you've used tools like Buffer or HootSuite, this will be familiar to you.

Creating Twitter auth keys

Visit https://apps.twitter.com/app/new

Set the following environment variables in either your user profile or at the command line:

• CONSUMER_KEY
• CONSUMER_SECRET
• ACCESS_TOKEN
• ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET

You can also save these auth keys in auth.toml file (see below).

Defining guffer.json

Guffer looks for a config file, for example guffer.json, which defines the schedule and status message (the tweet). Here's an example:

[  
  {
    "time": "15:22",
    "status": "Runs at 15:22 every day"
  },
  {
    "time": "15:23",
    "status": "Runs at 15:23 every day"
  },
  {
    "time": "15:26",
    "status": "Runs at 15:26 every day"
  }
]

Defining auth.toml

If you prefer to save twitter auth keys in a file, you can create a .toml file with this data

ConsumerKey = "YOUR_CONSUMER_KEY"
ConsumerSecret = "YOUR_CONSUMER_SECRET"
AccessToken = "YOUR_ACCES_TOKEN"
AccessTokenSecret = "YOUR_TOKEN_SECRET"

Running guffer

From source:

go get github.com/mrichman/guffer
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/mrichman/guffer
CONSUMER_KEY=xxxxx CONSUMER_SECRET=xxxxx ACCESS_TOKEN=xxxxx ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET=xxxxx go run main.go guffer.json
# With auth.toml
go run main.go guffer.json auth.toml

Binary:

CONSUMER_KEY=xxxxx CONSUMER_SECRET=xxxxx ACCESS_TOKEN=xxxxx ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET=xxxxx guffer guffer.json

or if you're using the auth.toml file

guffer guffer.json auth.toml

Guffer will print out a summary of the queued tweets, and log each tweet to the console. Quit with Ctrl+C.

Contributing

If you find any bugs, please report them! I am also happy to accept pull requests from anyone.

You can use the GitHub issue tracker to report bugs, ask questions, or suggest new features.

For a more informal setting to discuss this project, you can join the Gitter chat.