Fixup titles of Pinboard-bookmarked tweets

Pinboard archives my favorited tweets, but I don't like the titles. This project fixes them:

• Fetch all pinboard bookmarks that are tweets
• Use the Twitter API to fetch the whole tweet
• Update the pinboard bookmark with the tweet as title

Usage

1. Get the API token from the Pinboard password page and set it as environment variable.

    $ export PINBOARD_API_TOKEN=********
   

2. Likewise, get TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY and TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET from Twitter and export them as variables. This is required in order to deal with the query limit Twitter imposes.

3. Run the tool:

    $ pinboard-fixup-tweets
   

Docker Image

An automated build on the docker hub creates a new image tagged with latest upon a git push.

Optionally, you can build the image manually:

# Build and tag as the latest version of the image
$ docker build --tag nerab/pinboard-fixup-tweets:latest .

Deployment

Generate the run helper

• Install lpass
• Generate the deployment script scripts/generate-run-script > scripts/run.sh

If desired, you may run the container manually:

$ docker run \
    --env PINBOARD_API_TOKEN=******** \
    --env TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY=******** \
    --env TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET=******** \
    --name pinboard-fixup-tweets \
    nerab/pinboard-fixup-tweets

Change the environment variables to suit your preferences. The following environment variables are evaluated (in ascending order of preference):

Start the container

Run the previously generated scripts/run.sh. This will generate a new container from the image and execute the pinboard-fixup-tweets tool once. The container will then stop.

In order to run the tool regularly, copy the cron script scripts/ to /etc/cron.hourly/, e.g. with

docker-machine scp scripts/cronjob nr-docker:/etc/cron.hourly/pinboard-fixup-tweets

The environment variables were passed when running the container for the first time, so there is no need to pass them to docker start again.

Logs

A container will not print its console messages to where it was started from. If you want to follow the execution, use docker logs:

$ docker logs -f pinboard-fixup-tweets

Update the container

docker pull nerab/pinboard-fixup-tweets

# This will fail in most cases because the container is only running once an hour
docker stop nerab/pinboard-fixup-tweets

docker rm nerab/pinboard-fixup-tweets
./scripts/run.sh