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| − | Adding a twitter channel to eprints is dead easy. | + | == Adding a twitter channel to eprints is dead easy. == |
| − | First set up a twitter account for your repository. | + | ==== First set up a twitter account for your repository. ==== |
| − | Add the following to a .pl file in cfg.d/ | + | Add the following to a new .pl file in cfg.d/ |
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| + | You could name this file ''twitter.pl'', for example | ||
Add the username and password for the account. | Add the username and password for the account. | ||
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| + | ==== Couple of things to look out for: ==== | ||
| + | * Make sure you have CURL installed, as the script invokes this from the command line | ||
| + | * Restart Apache ( /etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload , or similar) | ||
| + | * Then log in and deposit an item to test | ||
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Add your twitter to the list: | Add your twitter to the list: | ||
* http://twitter.com/eprintsecs - ECS EPrints, Southampton | * http://twitter.com/eprintsecs - ECS EPrints, Southampton | ||
Revision as of 19:43, 16 September 2009
Adding a twitter channel to eprints is dead easy.
First set up a twitter account for your repository.
Add the following to a new .pl file in cfg.d/
You could name this file twitter.pl, for example
Add the username and password for the account.
$c->{eprint_status_change} = sub
{
my( $eprint, $old_status, $new_status ) = @_;
if( $new_status eq "archive" )
{
my $twitter_username="username";
my $twitter_password="password";
my $cmd1 = "curl -s 'http://is.gd/api.php?longurl=".$eprint->get_url."'";
my $shorturl = `$cmd1`;
my $title = $eprint->get_value( "title" );
$title =~ s/'/\\'/g;
my $cmd2 = "curl --basic -s --user $twitter_username:$twitter_password --data status='$title - $shorturl' http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml";
`$cmd2 &`;
}
};
Couple of things to look out for:
- Make sure you have CURL installed, as the script invokes this from the command line
- Restart Apache ( /etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload , or similar)
- Then log in and deposit an item to test
Add your twitter to the list:
- http://twitter.com/eprintsecs - ECS EPrints, Southampton
