🐦 How to Sync RSS Feeds to Twitter (X.com) Using Pipedream

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📝 Setup Requirements

A Twitter Developer account. You can apply here: Developer Platform. The free plan is sufficient for personal use, allowing up to 500 posts per month. This is more than enough for syncing personal blog content. During registration, you'll be asked to provide a reason for applying.

Here's a template you can modify:

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"Synchronize RSS to my personal X account for recording movies I have watched, music I have listened to, or content I have posted on my blog, etc. This functionality allows me to maintain a comprehensive and organized record of my personal experiences, preferences, and creative outputs. By integrating RSS feeds with my X account, I can easily keep track of the various forms of media I engage with, whether it's a captivating film that I watched over the weekend, a new album that I discovered and fell in love with, or an insightful blog post that I crafted and shared with my audience.

This synchronization process not only enhances my personal organization but also serves as a digital diary of sorts, capturing my evolving tastes and interests over time. It provides a convenient way to look back at my past activities and reflect on how my preferences have changed or remained consistent. Moreover, this feature can be a valuable tool for personal branding, allowing me to showcase my diverse interests and creative endeavors to my network.

Totally personal applications, this system is designed to cater to my individual needs and privacy preferences. It ensures that all the data being synchronized is managed within the confines of my personal X account, offering a secure and private space where I can store and access my records without any external interference. This level of personalization and control is crucial for maintaining the integrity of my digital identity and ensuring that my personal data remains protected and accessible only to me.

In summary, this RSS synchronization feature transforms my X account into a multifunctional hub where I can document, organize, and reflect upon my personal and creative experiences. It's a tool that not only simplifies my daily interactions with various forms of media but also enriches my digital presence by offering a detailed and dynamic representation of my personal journey."

A Pipedream account. You can sign up here: pipedream. You can log in using your Google or GitHub account. The free plan allows you to create up to 3 workflows, which is sufficient for this use case.

📝 Core Steps

Obtain Twitter Keys and Tokens

Go to https://developer.x.com/en/portal/projects-and-apps. On the left menu, click Projects & Apps → Overview. The system will have automatically generated an app for you. We need the API and authentication tokens for this app.

Click the Set Up button under User authentication settings to access the configuration page:

App Permissions: Select Read and Write since we want to post tweets.

Type of App: Choose Web App, Automated App, or Bot.

App Info: For Callback URL and Website URL, enter your domain. If you don't have one, use Pipedream's URL.

Click Save. This will generate a Client ID and Token, but these aren't what we need.

Return to the Overview page and click the small key icon next to PROJECT APP:

Click Generate under Access Token and Secret to create an Access Token and Access Token Secret. Make sure to save these, as they'll be needed later.

Click Regenerate under API Key and Secret to create an API Key and API Key Secret. Save these as well, as they'll be used in Pipedream.

Configure PipeDream Environment Variables

Assuming you've already registered for Pipedream, go to the management dashboard and click Settings on the left menu, then select Environment Variables.

Click + New Variable in the top-right corner to add new variables. You'll need to add 4 variables in total, with the following mappings:

TWITTER_ACCESS_SECRET: The Access Token Secret you obtained earlier.

TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN: The Access Token you obtained earlier.

TWITTER_API_SECRET: The API Key Secret you obtained earlier.

TWITTER_API_KEY: The API Key you obtained earlier.

Make sure the mappings are correct and the variable names are accurate.

Configure PipeDream Project and Workflow

Click Projects on the left menu, then click + New Project in the top-right corner. Enter a project name (keep it short and in English, as you'll need to retype it if you want to delete the project later). For example, I named mine "Twitter." Click Create Project to complete the setup.

In the list, click the project name you just created, then click the large +New button on the page. Select Workflow, modify the workflow name (again, keep it simple), and click Create Workflow.

Add RSS Trigger

Click Add Trigger to add a trigger. Since we want to automatically send a tweet when there's a new item in the RSS feed, the trigger will be the RSS feed itself.

In My Sources, select New Item in RSS Feed.

Timer: Set it to check every 8 hours to reduce requests. You can leave the UTC setting as default.

Feed URL: Enter the RSS feed URL you want to monitor.

Published After: Leave this as default. If you want to avoid sending duplicate content or sending too many tweets at once, you can set this to a slightly earlier time.

Click Save and continue to complete the trigger setup. Pipedream will attempt to read the RSS feed URL you provided and return the results.

Add Trigger Action

After setting up the RSS trigger, we need to configure the action to take when a new item is detected: posting a tweet on Twitter.

Click the + below the trigger on the canvas to add an action.

Select Node → Run Node Code.

In the code editor on the right, paste the following code:

Click Test to run the code. If everything works, a tweet should be automatically posted to your Twitter account. Then, click Deploy to complete the workflow setup for syncing RSS content to Twitter via Pipedream.

Twitter Tweet Example

The tweet will look something like this (a bit plain but functional).

You can modify the following part of the code to customize the tweet content:

I'll update this article if I make any further adjustments to the code.

🤗 Summary

Overall, this tutorial isn't too technically challenging—it mostly involves copying and pasting. However, since I'm already using 2 workflows in PipeDream for RSS-to-BlueSky synchronization, I've hit the limit of 3 workflows allowed under the free plan. In the future, I'll try to combine the BlueSky and Twitter synchronization into a single workflow.

If all goes well, this will be my last official article of 2024. Wishing everyone an early Happy New Year and a successful 2025!

📎 参考文章

https://www.dolingou.com/article/pipedream-rss-to-twitter-x-sync

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