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GitHub Action

Random Social Sharer

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Random Social Sharer

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Random Social Sharer

Share a random (blog) page to your social media accounts

Installation

Copy and paste the following snippet into your .yml file.

 
              
- name: Random Social Sharer

              
  uses: hendrixjoseph/[email protected]
Learn more about this action in hendrixjoseph/random-social-share

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Random Social Share

Randomly share a URL to Twitter & Facebook from a list of URLs in a CSV file.

CSV file must have headers. One column must be title, one must be date, and one must be URL.

Options

Option Default Value Description Required
source n/a the url of the CSV file true
twitter_access_token n/a the Twitter access token true
twitter_access_token_secret n/a the Twitter access token secret true
twitter_consumer_key n/a the Twitter consumer key true
twitter_consumer_secret n/a the Twitter consumer secret true
facebook_access_token n/a the Facebook access token true

Sample workflow

name: Randomly share a blog post.
on:
  workflow_dispatch:
  schedule:
    - cron:  '0 14 * * *'

jobs:
  random-social-share:
    name: Randomly share a blog post.
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: hendrixjoseph/random-social-share@master
        with:
          source: https://www.joehxblog.com/data/posts.csv
          twitter_access_token: ${{ secrets.TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
          twitter_access_token_secret: ${{ secrets.TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET }}
          twitter_consumer_key: ${{ secrets.TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY }}
          twitter_consumer_secret: ${{ secrets.TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET }}
          facebook_access_token: ${{ secrets.FACEBOOK_ACCESS_TOKEN }}

The above workflow is the one I use for may main blog; it can be viewed at https://github.com/hendrixjoseph/hendrixjoseph.github.io/blob/master/.github/workflows/random-social-share.yml.