Twitter GitHub Action

This action is unmaintained and probably does not work anymore.

Tweets from a GitHub action workflow.

Twitter Application Setup

You need a Twitter application to authenticate to the Twitter API and use it e.g. for sending tweets.

If you don't have already one, you can create in on developer.twitter.com/apps. Then you should set the app permissions to Read and Write and fetch the consumer keys (API key and API secret key) plus the access token and secret for the user on which behalf the action should tweet.

Secret Configuration

Store these tokens and keys as secrets in your repository, e.g. as

• TWITTER_API_KEY for the consumer API key,
• TWITTER_API_SECRET_KEY for the consumer API secret key,
• TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN for the user access token, and
• TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET for the user secret.

Usage

- uses: twwd/twitter-github-action@v1
  with:
    twitter_api_key: ${{ secrets.TWITTER_API_KEY }}
    twitter_api_secret_key: ${{ secrets.TWITTER_API_SECRET_KEY }}
    twitter_access_token: ${{ secrets.TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
    twitter_access_token_secret: ${{ secrets.TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET }}
    tweet_body: 'The content of the tweet'

Example Scenario: Tweet on Release

name: "Tweet about release"
on:
  release:
    types: [ released ]
jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Tweet
        uses: twwd/twitter-github-action@v1
        with:
          twitter_api_key: ${{ secrets.TWITTER_API_KEY }}
          twitter_api_secret_key: ${{ secrets.TWITTER_API_SECRET_KEY }}
          twitter_access_token: ${{ secrets.TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
          twitter_access_token_secret: ${{ secrets.TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET }}
          tweet_body: |
            We just released version ${{ github.event.release.tag_name }} of ${{ github.event.repository.name }} 🎉
            Check it out here ${{ github.event.release.html_url }}