Drafts Directory: Twitter: Get Likes

Action

Posted by agiletortoise, Last update 10 months ago

NOTE: This action no longer functions due to policy changes at Twitter that are out of our control. Visit the Twitter integration guide for details.

Prompt for a Twitter handle, the request a list of their recent likes from the Twitter API. Build a Markdown version of those tweets, put them in a new draft and open it in the editor.

Demonstrates use of the Twitter object request method to make arbitrary requests to the Twitter API.

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script

// set default twitter screen name for prompt
var screenName = "agiletortoise";

// prompt to screen to query for recent favs/likes
var p = Prompt.create();
p.title = "Get Twitter Likes"
p.message = "Enter twitter handle for the account who's likes you wish to download";

p.addTextField("user", "User", screenName);
p.addButton("Get Likes");

if (p.show()) {
	screenName = p.fieldValues["user"];
}
else {
	context.cancel();
}

script

// create a Twitter object
var twitter = Twitter.create();

// construct API endpoint to use.
// information on API at http://developer.twitter.com
var baseURL = "https://api.twitter.com/1.1/";
var url = baseURL + "favorites/list.json";

// make request to Twitter API
var response = twitter.request({
	"url": url,
	"method": "GET",
	"parameters": {
		"screen_name": screenName
	}
});

// handle the response
if (response.statusCode == 200) {
	var content = "";

	// favorites return array of tweet objects
	// loop over them and build a Markdown version
	for (var fav of response.responseData) {
		var id = fav.id_str;
		var sn = fav.user.screen_name;
		var tweetURL = `http://twitter.com/${sn}/status/${id}`;
		var text = fav.text;
	
		content += `${text}\n*[link](${tweetURL})*\n\n---\n\n`
	}
	// create a new draft and open it
	var d = Draft.create();
	d.content = content;
	d.update();
	editor.load(d);
}
else {
	context.fail();
}

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