[python-events] Connecting the calendar feeds to Twitter

M.-A. Lemburg mal at python.org
Sat Jan 18 21:39:41 CET 2014


On 18.01.2014 20:41, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> On 18.01.2014 14:26, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>> I'm currently looking into connecting the calendar feeds to twitter
>> using ifttt.com.
>>
>> Does anyone have experience with this ?
>>
>> I've already setup a twitter account for this:
>> https://twitter.com/pythonevents
>>
>> Next step will be learning ifttt.com and trying to connect the RSS
>> feeds to the twitter account.
> 
> I've now connected both calendars to the twitter account now using
> ifttt. Unfortunately, there's no easy way to test this. The ifttt
> recipes only trigger on new entries in the RSS feed.
> 
> The next event we add should trigger a tweet in one of these
> formats:
> 
> "New #Python #Event: {{EntryTitle}} - {{EntryUrl}}." for events
> 
> "New #Python #User #Group #Event: {{EntryTitle}} - {{EntryUrl}}."
> for user group events

I managed to trigger the events rule with PyData London 2014. It
seems that only new items on the RSS feed trigger the rule. Changes
to existing ones don't.

-- 
Marc-Andre Lemburg
Director
Python Software Foundation
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