Github action for adding a post to Twitter

Tweet with ease

I’ve just published a new CI code snippet, which helps to make a tweet directly from Github Actions.

Use cases

The good question - Why I need tweet-action? Here are several use cases where it can be applied:

blogging system, to automate the process of tweeting of new articles
release updates, when a new release (tag) is created it can tweet a news message about it

Setup steps

Register as a Twitter app developer in here. Usually, it takes up to 1 week. If you already have access, go to the next step.
Create a new Twitter application in this section. Copy API key, API secret key somewhere.
At the bottom of the page, press get user tokens, and then press Access token & secret for @username generate button. Copy Access token, Access token secret somewhere.
Go to the app settings section and change App permissions over there to Read and Write
Now you need to get into a Github repository
Go to the repository settings page and secrets with previously saved keys.

TWITTER_API_KEY="API key"
TWITTER_API_KEY_SECRET="API secret key"
TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN="Access token"
TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET="Access token secret"

Now is the moment to extend Github Action yaml file. Here is a quick example:

name: Tweeting from Gtihub Actions

on: push

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - uses: infraway/tweet-[email protected]
        with:
          status: "Hello World, delivered from Github Actions 🚀"
          api_key: ${{ secrets.TWITTER_API_KEY }}
          api_key_secret: ${{ secrets.TWITTER_API_KEY_SECRET }}
          access_token: ${{ secrets.TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
          access_token_secret: ${{ secrets.TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET }}