Request: Twitter notifications

[drizzt09]

I used to use a twitter notification setup from this url https://forums.sabnzbd.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=17999&p=98578&hilit=twitter#p98578 but this past week it has stopped working with error: Notification script returned exit code 255 and output " C:\Program Files\SABnzbd>CLS  C:\Program Files\SABnzbd>SET status= C:\Program Files\SABnzbd>SET zero=0 C:\Program Files\SABnzbd>SET filename="Test Notification" 0 was unexpected at this time. C:\Program Files\SABnzbd>IF EQU 0 (GOTO :SUCCESS) ELSE (GOTO :FAIL) " Would be excellent if your awesome notify service could include twitter

[caronc]

I'll see how difficult it is and hopefully have a look at it this weekend. Since Twitter restricts you to 140 characters or less. Space is somewhat very limited, what did you want to be displayed inside the tweet?

[drizzt09]

Successful or failed download and file name. I had it DM from 1 twitter account to another twitter account. DM do not have character limits. Also regular tweets are in the process of increasing to 280 characters. Started rolling out last week on a staged roll out. Another option is supporting zapier. It is designed to connect apps. If you can hook into zapier, zapier can fees twitter (and thousands of other apps)

[caronc]

Thanks for your feedback! So do you think this new enhancement should provide both public tweets and DMs, or just DMs?

I'm thinking just private DMs might be the best way to go? What are your thoughts?

Meanwhile I'll investigate zapier (as you mentioned) and other frameworks and see what can be put together.

[drizzt09]

I personally prefer DM but having two command strings (one for each) would give user options which options are always great. We use Zapier at work to take specific emails and post to Ryver (Slack competitor). You get 5 zaps in a free account

[caronc]

I think i just completed the task! :smile:. Have a go at the master branch and let me know how it goes.

The syntax is: tweet://user@/ConsumerKey/ConsumerSecret/AccessTokenKey/AccessTokenSecret/

This is presuming you set up yourself an app correctly on https://apps.twitter.com and generated you a set of Access Tokens!

I was able to send myself a Direct Message (i have not added public tweets yet). If i do implement it, the syntax will be the same, but you'll add ?public=True to the end of the URL.

At this point, I'll just be curious to hear your feedback!

[drizzt09]

wow that was fast. thanks. OK, created my app and got all keys needed downloaded and extracted master branch into scripts folder selected notify.py and put in the parameters based on the above string with my own info saved but when running test get error: Notification script returned exit code 1 and output "'python' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. "

Question is the section for "user@". Is it supposed to be replaced with "@user" or just "user" and is it sending user or receiving user?

[caronc]

For SABnzbd you want to choose the special wrapper script (sabnzbd-notify.py); but Notify.py and the Notify directory both need to be present too (all in the same directory).

Then when you fill out the Notification argument, you'll need to put tweet://user@/ConsumerKey/ConsumerSecret/AccessTokenKey/AccessTokenSecret/ in the field. You'll need to substituting all the values with what you got from Twitter.

The user can be your twitter identifier (without the @ symbol in front of it) or it can be the Owner Identifier which you can find out from the same screen your Keys are located at. I realize this seems backwards for twitter, but it's actually the correct syntax for a web page URIs.

If you have access to a terminal, you can change to the directory/of/sabnzb/scripts/ and type:

# Test your command manually (without SABnzbd)
python Notify.py -s tweet://user@/ConsumerKey/ConsumerSecret/AccessTokenKey/AccessTokenSecret/

# Or, do the same command with the -D switch to see more debugging information that
# may or may not help you, but it may help me (if you belive the problem is still in the script)
python Notify.py -D -s tweet://user@/ConsumerKey/ConsumerSecret/AccessTokenKey/AccessTokenSecret/

[drizzt09]

fixed the script, selection, changed the user which i had a different user. Now i have the user that belongs to the keys. I used CMD in Windows to run your command but get error there too (which i assume is because im on Windows?): 'python' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

[caronc]

Weird, SABnzbd relies on Python, does it not? You could make sure it's a part of your Windows installation; get it here. Then giver another go! :)

[drizzt09]

ok, python installed. python install directory added to windows path. now python recognized in CMD. Running your command gives a different error now. a bunch of lines with my keys and then ends with: 2017-10-05 22:55:09,496 - 9124 - ERROR - Could not initialize tweet instance. 2017-10-05 22:55:09,513 - 9124 - DEBUG - Initialization Exception: No user was specified. 2017-10-05 22:55:09,513 - 9124 - DEBUG - Exiting with return code: 0

But i had python Notify.py -D -s tweet://sickbeard9/key/secret/key/secret

[drizzt09]

Server parsed to: {'host': 'sickbeard9', 'user': None, 'query': None, 'url': 'tweet://sickbeard9/ is the user going into the wrong field? seems like it thinks the user is the host and the user is blank

[drizzt09]

I restarted the PC and test passed in Sab, but nothing arrived in Twitter. I ran an actual download and automated the script and got this: 2017-10-06 00:10:52,345 - sabnzbd-notify - 6976 - ERROR - Invalid specified (argument 1) Syntax: sabnzbd-notify.py