twitter-link-collector

A tool to extract url links from the user's twitter timeline, and email them to a predefined mail box

Todo

• Monitor state of the websocket opened with Twitter
• More tests !
• extract image from the links
• Dockerise

Pre-requisites

• A twitter app as defined here: https://apps.twitter.com/
• Smtp email details: server, port and user/password.

Installation - Option 1: run locally

• Export the following environment parameters

   * TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY, TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET, TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN, TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET: from the Twitter app console
   
   * MAIL_USER, MAIL_PASSWORD, MAIL_HOST, MAIL_PORT, MAIL_RECIPIENT : the email client settings
  

• go run Main.go

Installation - Option 2: use systemd on linux

• Edit the twitter-link-collector.service file with the relevant account details

• sudo mv twitter-link-collector.service /etc/systemd/system

• sudo systemctl start twitter-link-collector