Hey, Has anyone gotten their MUD tweeting properly since the Twitter API change a while back that made it so cURL stopped being a valid method to do so? I know at least a few other MUDs used to tweet on statups, and special bonus's etc.
Here's a link to my php implementation. It reads a line from a MySQL server table but it can be easily tweaked to read from a flat file instead.
I use a crontab call every 3 min.: */3 * * * * lynx -dump http://<<your server IP>>/twitter/autotweet.php >> tweet.log
In order to set this up, you need to create a tweeter application account, use your CONSUMER_ID & CONSUMER_SECRET strings to generate an accessToken and an accessSecretToken (1-time deal), then plug all 4 of these in the "new TwitterOAuth" call that's inside autotweet.php.
15 Sep, 2011, David Haley wrote in the 4th comment:
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It seems that it would be easier to do this from the server directly, on-demand, rather than running a process every three minutes… Are you doing this because it's easier to go through PHP than C for the web calls?
At the time I set mine up, OAuth was very new and I could only find two easy-to-use libraries, one in Python and one in PHP. I now see a much longer list, including one entry in the C++ section which uses curl. Might want to check that one out first.
Has anyone gotten their MUD tweeting properly since the Twitter API change a while back that made it so cURL stopped being a valid method to do so? I know at least a few other MUDs used to tweet on statups, and special bonus's etc.
Thanks,