As the title suggests, my goal here is to be able to send a tweet from a script.gs
. The tweet would be posted to my feed, ideally without me having to visit the Twitter website.
I wrote two main functions to attempt this:
script.gs
//post tweet
function oAuth() {
var CONSUMER_KEY = "**********************";
var CONSUMER_SECRET = "*************************************************";
ScriptProperties.setProperty("TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY", CONSUMER_KEY);
ScriptProperties.setProperty("TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET", CONSUMER_SECRET);
var oauthConfig = UrlFetchApp.addOAuthService("twitter");
oauthConfig.setAccessTokenUrl("https://api.twitter.com/oauth/access_token");
oauthConfig.setRequestTokenUrl("https://api.twitter.com/oauth/request_token");
oauthConfig.setAuthorizationUrl("https://api.twitter.com/oauth/authorize");
oauthConfig.setConsumerKey(ScriptProperties.getProperty("TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY"));
oauthConfig.setConsumerSecret(ScriptProperties.getProperty("TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET"));
var options = {muteHttpExceptions: true,oAuthServiceName:'twitter',oAuthUseToken:'always'}
var url = "https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/user_timeline.json";
var response = UrlFetchApp.fetch(url, options).getContentText();
Logger.log(response);
}
function postTweet() {
oAuth();
Logger.log('oAuth complete');
var status = "Tweet";
var Roptions = {
method: "post",
oAuthServiceName: "twitter",
oAuthUseToken: "always",
status: status
};
var url = "https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/update.json";
Logger.log('begin post');
var request = UrlFetchApp.fetch(url, Roptions); //the trouble line. Execution stops.
Logger.log('post complete');
}
After about a day of relentless hacking, I was able to get the first function, oAuth()
to work. That logs, well, my user data. However, for the life of me, I cannot figure out what is holding up request
. I do get this error: Request failed for returned code 403. Truncated server response: {"errors":[{"message":"SSL is required","code":92}]}
. Googling this didn't turn up much. I'm guessing that the issue is somewhere in Roptions
. Any help would be appreciated, and I can try to provide further clarification if needed.
Eureka! Here's the solution. The irony is that I had had something like this before, but had dismissed it. Turns out https
was my biggest problem. I'll feast on humble pie tonight.
script to send tweet
//post tweet
function oAuth() {
var CONSUMER_KEY = "*************************";
var CONSUMER_SECRET = "**************************************************";
ScriptProperties.setProperty("TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY", CONSUMER_KEY);
ScriptProperties.setProperty("TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET", CONSUMER_SECRET);
var oauthConfig = UrlFetchApp.addOAuthService("twitter");
oauthConfig.setAccessTokenUrl("https://api.twitter.com/oauth/access_token");
oauthConfig.setRequestTokenUrl("https://api.twitter.com/oauth/request_token");
oauthConfig.setAuthorizationUrl("https://api.twitter.com/oauth/authenticate");
oauthConfig.setConsumerKey(ScriptProperties.getProperty("TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY"));
oauthConfig.setConsumerSecret(ScriptProperties.getProperty("TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET"));
var options = {muteHttpExceptions: true,oAuthServiceName:'twitter',oAuthUseToken:'always'}
var url = "https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/user_timeline.json";
var response = UrlFetchApp.fetch(url, options).getContentText();
Logger.log(response);
}
function postTweet() {
oAuth();
Logger.log('oAuth complete');
var status='Test tweet';
var options = {
"method": "post",
"oAuthServiceName": "twitter",
"oAuthUseToken": "always",
"payload":{"status":status}
};
var url = "https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/update.json";
Logger.log('begin post');
var request = UrlFetchApp.fetch(url, options);
Logger.log('post complete');
}
When you register your Twitter app, you have to check the option Allow this application to be used to Sign in with Twitter
. This prevents continual Authorize popups. Also, the tweet text CANNOT contain single quotes ('
).
@J148, oauthConfig depricated and you can't use it anymore;
Now for twitter you have to use OAuth1 for Apps Script. Migration docs:
https://developers.google.com/apps-script/migration/oauth-config?utm_campaign=oauth-appsscript-315&utm_source=gadbc&utm_medium=blog
Sample:
https://github.com/googlesamples/apps-script-oauth1/blob/master/samples/Twitter.gs
To make sample working you have to:
- Add "OAuth1 for Apps Script library" to your script project
- Declare some stub "Callback URL" in the twitter app's settings