@actionsflow/trigger-twitter

---

title: "Twitter" metaTitle: "Actionsflow twitter trigger" metaDescription: "twitter trigger is triggered when new tweets are detected."

@actionsflow/trigger-twitter

This is an Actionsflow twitter trigger. You can watch the user_timeline updates by using this trigger.

Events

on:
  twitter:
    event: user_timeline
    auth:
      consumer_key: ${{ secrets.TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY }}
      consumer_secret: ${{ secrets.TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET }}
      access_token: ${{ secrets.TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
      access_token_secret: ${{ secrets.TWITTER_ACCESS_SECRET }}
    params:
      screen_name: theowenyoung

Params

• event, optional, default is user_timeline, for now only support user_timeline.
• auth, required, twitter api authentication, you should get it from Twitter Developers App

  auth:
    consumer_key: ${{ secrets.TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY }}
    consumer_secret: ${{ secrets.TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET }}
    access_token: ${{ secrets.TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
    access_token_secret: ${{ secrets.TWITTER_ACCESS_SECRET }}
  

• params, optional, fetch twitter api query params, for user_timeline, you must provide screen_name field, for example:

  params:
    screen_name: theowenyoung
    count: 50,
    exclude_replies: true,
    include_rts: true,
    tweet_mode: "extended",
  

• every, optional, fetch interval, the unit is minute, the default value is 5
• skip_first, optional, should skip the first items, the default value is false
• max_items_count, optional, the feed items max length, the default value is undefined, it will trigger all items

Outputs

This trigger's outputs will be the item of the following results.

An outputs example:

{
  "created_at": "Wed Aug 12 02:01:00 +0000 2020",
  "id": 1293366847476134000,
  "id_str": "1293366847476133888",
  "full_text": "test tweets...",
  "truncated": false,
  "display_text_range": [0, 30],
  "entities": {
    "hashtags": [],
    "symbols": [],
    "user_mentions": [],
    "urls": []
  },
  "source": "<a href=\"https://mobile.twitter.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter Web App</a>",
  "in_reply_to_status_id": null,
  "in_reply_to_status_id_str": null,
  "in_reply_to_user_id": null,
  "in_reply_to_user_id_str": null,
  "in_reply_to_screen_name": null,
  "user": {
    "id": 1241294513575878700,
    "id_str": "1241294513575878656",
    "name": "Owen Young",
    "screen_name": "TheOwenYoung",
    "location": "",
    "description": "love workflows",
    "url": null,
    "entities": {
      "description": {
        "urls": []
      }
    },
    "protected": false,
    "followers_count": 2,
    "friends_count": 52,
    "listed_count": 1,
    "created_at": "Sat Mar 21 09:24:27 +0000 2020",
    "favourites_count": 4,
    "utc_offset": null,
    "time_zone": null,
    "geo_enabled": false,
    "verified": false,
    "statuses_count": 28,
    "lang": null,
    "contributors_enabled": false,
    "is_translator": false,
    "is_translation_enabled": false,
    "profile_background_color": "F5F8FA",
    "profile_background_image_url": null,
    "profile_background_image_url_https": null,
    "profile_background_tile": false,
    "profile_image_url": "http://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1241298955742273536/E26HEH2o_normal.jpg",
    "profile_image_url_https": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1241298955742273536/E26HEH2o_normal.jpg",
    "profile_link_color": "1DA1F2",
    "profile_sidebar_border_color": "C0DEED",
    "profile_sidebar_fill_color": "DDEEF6",
    "profile_text_color": "333333",
    "profile_use_background_image": true,
    "has_extended_profile": true,
    "default_profile": true,
    "default_profile_image": false,
    "following": false,
    "follow_request_sent": false,
    "notifications": false,
    "translator_type": "none"
  },
  "geo": null,
  "coordinates": null,
  "place": null,
  "contributors": null,
  "is_quote_status": false,
  "retweet_count": 0,
  "favorite_count": 0,
  "favorited": false,
  "retweeted": false,
  "lang": "zh"
}

You can use the outputs like this:

on:
  twitter:
    event: user_timeline
    auth:
      consumer_key: ${{ secrets.TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY }}
      consumer_secret: ${{ secrets.TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET }}
      access_token: ${{ secrets.TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
      access_token_secret: ${{ secrets.TWITTER_ACCESS_SECRET }}
    params:
      screen_name: theowenyoung
jobs:
  print:
    name: Print
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Print Outputs
        env:
          text: ${{ on.twitter.outputs.full_text }}
        run: |
          echo text: $text