Node Twitter contributor daemon

This is a Node.js daemon to allow multiple users to post link to one Twitter account and Tumblr blog. It also tracks favs and provides feedback to contributors when their links get engagement.

While @GIFs is currently running on a Raspberry Pi, you may run this in any Node environment.

Installation & Setup

Install and configure Node and NPM

Create Twitter API keys and Tumblr API keys and add them to config.json

Additional Configuration

Configs found in daemon.js:

    environment      = "prod", // 'dev' for development or 'prod' for production
    config_file      = require("./config.json"), // See config-sample.json
    show_heartbeat   = false, // false logs heartbeat message to stdout only, true logs to logfile as well
    tweet_rate       = 20, // Minutes between Tweets

config.json

{
  "prod": {
    "twitter": {
      "screen_name": "<main username>",
      "user_id": "<id of the account to control>",
      "admin_id": "<id of the account that will receive errors and notices>",
      "consumer_key": "xxx",
      "consumer_secret": "xxx",
      "oauth_token": "xxx",
      "oauth_secret": "xxx"
    },
    "tumblr": {
      "blog_name": "blog",
      "blog_url": "blog.tumblr.com",
      "consumer_key": "xxx",
      "consumer_secret": "xxx",
      "oauth_token": "xxx",
      "oauth_secret": "xxx"
    }
  },
  "dev": {
    "twitter": {
      "screen_name": "<dev username>",
      "user_id": "<id of the account to control during development>",
      "admin_id": "<id of the account that will receive errors and notices during development>",
      "consumer_key": "xxx",
      "consumer_secret": "xxx",
      "oauth_token": "xxx",
      "oauth_secret": "xxx"
    },
    "tumblr": {
      "blog_name": "blog-test",
      "blog_url": "blog-test.tumblr.com",
      "consumer_key": "xxx",
      "consumer_secret": "xxx",
      "oauth_token": "xxx",
      "oauth_secret": "xxx"
    }
  }
}

Third party package documentation

• dblite - SQLite database integration
• twitter - Twitter REST & Streaming API
• user-stream - Twitter Streaming API (More complete Streaming support than above)
• tumblrwks - Tumblr REST API
• request - Various HTTP handlers

TODO:

• Track retweet counts
• Periodically backfill fav counts to make sure local counts match Twitter's counts
• Create contributor leaderboard

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