This is a neato little project to showcase some of my NodeJS expertise. When the index.js file is run, a screenshot is taken of website/twitter.html and saved to tmp/, and the photo is then uploaded to Twitter as a 'profile banner'. The screenshot file is then discarded.
You should be able to demo the result on my Twitter page. The profile banner is updated periodically.
You'll need to setup a Twitter App before proceeding.
First, do your normal npm install. Then, in the top directory of the project, add a .env file with the following details from the app you set up on Twitter:
CONSUMER_KEY=[CONSUMER_KEY_HERE]
CONSUMER_SECRET=[CONSUMER_SECRET_HERE]
ACCESS_TOKEN=[ACCESS_TOKEN_HERE]
ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET=[ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET_HERE]
Then run:
node index.js [--pretend] [--facebook]Feel free to throw this command in a cron.
Beware: You probably only want to run this command every so often - Twitter's API rate-limits hard, yo.
Just so you know:
--pretend pretends to post to Twitter. It doesn't actually do anything except generate the screenshot for you.
--facebook generates you a one-off Facebook profile banner instead. Currently, this doesn't post it to Facebook for you, so you'll have to grab it from the tmp/ directory.