Use case:

For Drupalchix, I want to pull in several users' Twitter feeds via Feed API and re-tweet them over a single account, so all nodes of a "tweet" type should be posted to Twitter.

It'd be convenient if there was an option to always post a particular content type to Twitter, rather than having to check a box. This is especially relevant because Feed API creates nodes through node_object_prepare() and node_save(), rather than drupal_execute(), so this code never gets fired.

In the meantime, here's a small hook_nodeapi() implementation that does this for someone who needs this functionality now.

/**       
 * Implementation of hook_nodeapi().
 */
function drupalchix_nodeapi(&$node, $op, $a3 = NULL, $a4 = NULL) {
  switch ($op) {
    case 'insert': 
      if ($node->type == 'tweet') {
        module_load_include('inc', 'twitter');
        $twitter_accounts = drupal_map_assoc(array_keys(twitter_get_user_accounts($node->uid, TRUE)));
        $node->twitter['post'] = TRUE;
        $node->twitter['status'] = 'RT @!title';
        $node->twitter['account'] = array_pop(array_keys($twitter_accounts));
      }
      break;
  } 
}

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Leeteq commented

+1

rudygodoy’s picture

rudygodoy commented

+1

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summit commented

Hi, where to add this in the twitter module? Is beneath code correct:

  switch ($op) {
    case 'insert':
    case 'update':
       if ($node->type == 'tweet') {
        module_load_include('inc', 'twitter');
        $twitter_accounts = drupal_map_assoc(array_keys(twitter_get_user_accounts($node->uid, TRUE)));
        $node->twitter['post'] = TRUE;
        $node->twitter['status'] = 'RT @!title';
        $node->twitter['account'] = array_pop(array_keys($twitter_accounts));
      }
      else {
        if (!empty($node->status) && !empty($node->twitter) && !empty($node->twitter['post'])) {
          $twitter_accounts = twitter_get_user_accounts($node->uid, TRUE);
          $pass = $twitter_accounts[$node->twitter['account']]['password'];
  
          $replacements = array('!title' => $node->title,
                                '!url' => url('node/'. $node->nid, array('absolute' => TRUE, 'alias' => TRUE)),
                                '!url-alias' => url('node/'. $node->nid, array('absolute' => TRUE)),
                                '!user' => $node->name);
          // Only generate the shortened URL if it's going to be used. No sense
          // burning through TinyURLs without a good reason.
          if (strstr($node->twitter['status'], '!tinyurl') !== FALSE) {
            $replacements['!tinyurl'] = twitter_shorten_url(url('node/'. $node->nid, array('absolute' => TRUE)));
          }

          $status = strtr($node->twitter['status'], $replacements);
          $result = twitter_set_status($node->twitter['account'], $pass, $status);
          if (_twitter_request_failure($result)) {
            drupal_set_message(t('An error occurred when posting to twitter: %code %error',
                                 array('%code' => $result->code, '%error' => $result->error)), 'warning');
          }
          else {
            drupal_set_message(t('Successfully posted to Twitter'));
          }
        }
      }
      break;

I have the same situation as feedapi but with another content type. Story and page nodes the "Post to twitter.com" is shown, but for example weblinks not.

greetings, Martijn

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nancydru
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commented

Out of curiosity, since Summit also posted a similar request to the Web Links queue, why can the Twitter module not correctly handle a standard node creation mechanism (node/add/mytype)?

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raintonr commented

+1

Our use case is that when a community member (user on the Drupal site) posts a new 'event' type on the Drupal site, that this is tweeted on an account that belongs to the site.

Eg. we have a twitter account 'Our organisation' that should have a list of tweets with links to all events.

Side issue: Moderators should optionally be able tweet any content on an account that belongs to the site, not their personal twitter. That appears OT for this issue though.

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yngens commented

I'd like to use blog api with twitter module to tweet story type documents. Where exactly the code above should go into?

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socialnicheguru commented

is this part of dev 3?

Is there a way to just set this on the content type page?

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commented
Version: 6.x-2.x-dev » 7.x-3.x-dev
Status: Active » Postponed

No way to set this on the content page at this point.

Issue has languished for a long time, and there's a working solution above so will postpone until someone contributes a patch.

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juampynr commented
Status: Postponed » Closed (won't fix)

Closing.

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raintonr commented
Status: Closed (won't fix) » Active

While there may be code snippets in this thread that give a clue as to how this could be done, I do no see that warrants the issue being closed.

It is obviously a sought after feature and not all users are technical enough to implement code so re-opening.

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juampynr commented
Status: Active » Fixed

@raintor, I think that you can achieve this with the twitter_actions submodule.

1. Enable twitter_actions
2. authenticate a Twitter account and make it global
3. Create a Rule that triggers when new content of type foo is created.
4. Set up a Post to Twitter reaction using the global account.

Let me know if this works for you.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.