gh-announce

Twitter bot that posts a tweet each time you make a release on github!

Synopsis

I happen to maintain a lot of python projects on github such as distroverify and vtscan, and each time I make a tagged release, I have to make a status tweet to let people know. This tool is for automating this process, read this article to know more details.

Installation

pip install gh_announce

Usage

• First time only to configure your github username & twitter api details:

    > gh_announce --config
  

• Testing the app:

    > gh_announce
    successfully updated status for repo: prahladyeri/distroverify, tag: 1.0.4
  

• Result:

• Set as a cron job by running crontab -e:

    * 12 * * * gh_announce