Automatic Discourse Posts from Twitter: Any Plugins Available?

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derak is looking for a plugin to create automatic Discourse posts from Twitter account updates. merefield shared a fork of the discourse-autobot plugin, which had Twitter support but may not work currently due to Twitter’s updated charges and lack of testing. The plugin uses polling, which could be expensive, and merefield suggests converting it to pub-sub. However, merefield has moved on and the fork is unsupported. Heliosurge asked about Twitter compatibility, and Heliosurge is looking for alternative ways to accomplish automatic posting from Twitter, as maintaining the plugin is beyond their capabilities.

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HI,

Are there any plugins to create automatic Discourse posts from Twitter account updates?

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I fixed this up to work with YouTube again and it did have Twitter support, but you may need to work on it to make Twitter work again:

https://github.com/merefield/discourse-autobot

(I didn’t PR my fork to the main repo precisely because I only fixed YouTube and have not tested Twitter)

Be aware it uses polling and this might get a little expensive now Twitter has upped their charges … you would be better to convert it to pub-sub.

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Hi Robert was wondering if you had a chance to test twitter compatibility since your Youtube fix?

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The fork is completely unsupported I’m afraid, I moved on (but it’s in a better state than the original - simply because I did spend a lot of time improving it at the time), but feel free to take a copy and continue improving it. Twitter functionality was not touched, so probably very out of date (but the framework is good, so worth fixing).

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Thank you but imagine this would be over my head to do at this point.

There was a post requesting to have this plugin taken over for maintaining.

Do you know off hand any other ways to accomplish this?