Tweet new drafts

[mnot]

If submission is successful, it'd be nice to be able to tweet about it automagically.

The tweeting part is easy enough, but figuring out what to tweet is harder; from a quick look, it doesn't appear that even the tag name is available to GitHub Actions as it sits.

[mnot]

For later use:

const { TwitterClient } = require('twitter-api-client')

const tweet = async (status) => {
  const twitterClient = new TwitterClient({
    apiKey: process.env.TWITTER_API_KEY,
    apiSecret: process.env.TWITTER_API_SECRET,
    accessToken: process.env.TWITTER_API_ACCESS_TOKEN,
    accessTokenSecret: process.env.TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET
  })

  await twitterClient.tweets.statusesUpdate({ status })
};

(async () => {
  try {
    const myTweet = process.argv[2]
    await tweet(myTweet)
  } catch (err) {
    console.error(err)
  }
})()

[martinthomson]

The tag is available via ${{ github.ref }}. You have to strip refs/tags/ from the front.

[martinthomson]

For managing secrets: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/security-guides/encrypted-secrets#creating-encrypted-secrets-for-an-organization https://docs.github.com/en/actions/security-guides/encrypted-secrets#using-encrypted-secrets-in-a-workflow

[mnot]

In the meantime we've been doing this by polling the data tracker api with https://github.com/ietf-github-services/datatracker-tweet

It's certainly possible to hook it in here, but doing it from data tracker allows tweeting other document actions too...

[mnot]

Closing as OBE