X-Git-Url: https://git.mxchange.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=twitter%2FREADME.md;h=5a48869007148fa3610e5fae4b8c9fcf4ab47185;hb=38bf5d4a5afec8f0cb58ddd5742815238219f10d;hp=13f0152f95df9fb8efe5bf27e0e41ec2230d044a;hpb=0a683452c2752d0022c80d633717143dbab275dc;p=friendica-addons.git diff --git a/twitter/README.md b/twitter/README.md index 13f0152f..5a488690 100644 --- a/twitter/README.md +++ b/twitter/README.md @@ -1,140 +1,23 @@ -Twitter Plugin +Twitter Addon ============== -Main authors Tobias Diekershoff and Michael Vogel. +Main authors Tobias Diekershoff, Michael Vogel and Hypolite Petovan. -With this addon to friendica you can give your user the possibility to post -their *public* messages to Twitter. The messages will be strapped their rich -context and shortened to 140 characters length if necessary. If shortening of -the message was performed a link will be added to the Tweet pointing to the -original message on your server. +This bi-directional connector addon allows each user to crosspost their Friendica public posts to Twitter, import their +Twitter timeline, interact with tweets from Friendica, and crosspost to Friendica their public tweets. -The addon can also mirror a users Tweets into the ~friendica wall. +## Installation -There is a similar addon for forwarding public messages to -[StatusNet](http://status.net). +To use this addon you have to register an [application](https://apps.twitter.com/) for your Friendica instance on Twitter. +Please leave the field "Callback URL" empty. -Requirements ------------- +After the registration please enter the values for "Consumer Key" and "Consumer Secret" in the [administration](admin/addons/twitter). -To use this plugin you have to register an application for your friendica -instance on Twitter with -* read and write access -* don't set a callback URL -* we do not intend to use Twitter for login -The registration can be done at twitter.com/apps and you need a Twitter -account for doing so. +## License -After you registered the application you get an OAuth consumer key / secret -pair that identifies your app, you will need them for configuration. - -The inclusion of a shorturl for the original posting in cases when the -message was longer than 140 characters requires it, that you have *PHP5+* and -*curl* on your server. - -Where to find -------------- - -In the friendica addon git repository /twitter/, this directory contains -all required PHP files (including the [Twitter OAuth library][1] by Abraham -Williams, MIT licensed and the [Slinky library][2] by Beau Lebens, BSD license), -a CSS file for styling of the user configuration and an image to _Sign in with -Twitter_. - -[1]: https://github.com/abraham/twitteroauth -[2]: http://dentedreality.com.au/projects/slinky/ - -Configuration -============= - -Global Configuration --------------------- - -If you enabled an administrator account, please use the admin panel to configure -the Twitter relay. If you for any reason prefer to use a configuration file instead -of the admin panels, please refer to the Alternative Configuration below. - -Activate the plugin from the plugins section of your admin panel. When you have -done so, add your consumer key and consumer secret in the settings section of the -plugin page. - -When this is done your user can now configure their Twitter connection at -"Settings -> Connector Settings" and enable the forwarding of their *public* -messages to Twitter. - -Alternative Configuration -------------------------- - -To activate this addon add twitter to the list of active addons in your -.htconfig.php file - - $a->config['system']['addon'] = "twitter, ..." - -Afterwards you need to add your OAuth consumer key / secret pair to it by -adding the following two lines - - $a->config['twitter']['consumerkey'] = 'your consumer KEY here'; - $a->config['twitter']['consumersecret'] = 'your consumer SECRET here'; - - -Mirroring of Public Postings ----------------------------- - -To avoid endless loops of public postings that are send to Twitter and then -mirrored back into your friendica stream you have to set the _name of the -application you registered there_ of your friendica node is using to post to -Twitter in the .htconfig.php file. - - $a->config['twitter']['application_name'] = "yourname here"; - -Connector Options for the User -============================== - -When the OAuth consumer informations are correctly placed into the -configuration file and a user visits the "Connector Settings" page they can now -connect to Twitter. To do so one has to follow the _Sign in with Twitter_ -button (the page will be opened in a new browser window/tab) and get a PIN from -Twitter. This PIN has to be entered on the settings page. After submitting the -PIN the plugin will get OAuth credentials identifying this user from the -friendica account. - -After this step was successful the user now has the following config options. - -* **Allow posting to StatusNet** If you want your _public postings_ being - optionally posted to your associated Twitter account as well, you need to - check this box. -* **Send public postings to StatusNet by default** if you want to have _all_ - your public postings being send to your Twitter account you need to check - this button as well. Otherwise you have to enable the relay of your postings - in the ACL dialog (click the lock button) before posting an entry. -* **Mirror all posts from statusnet that are no replies or repeated messages** - if you want your postings from Twitter also appear in your friendica - postings, check this box. Replies to other people postings, repostings and your own - postings that were send from friendica wont be mirrored into your friendica - stream. -* **Shortening method that optimizes the post** by default friendica checks how - many characters your Twitter instance allows you to use for a posting and - if a posting is longer then this amount of characters it will shorten the - message posted on Twitter and add a short link back to the original - posting. Optionally you can check this box to have the shortening of the - message use an optimization algorithm. _TODO add infos how this is - optimized_ -* **Send linked #-tags and @-names to StatusNet** if you want your #-tags and - @-mentions linked to the friendica network, check this box. If you want to - have Twitter handle these things for the relayed end of the posting chain, - uncheck it. -* **Clear OAuth configuration** if you want to remove the currently associated - Twitter account from your friendica account you have to check this box and - then hit the submit button. The saved settings will be deleted and you have - to reconfigure the Twitter connector to be able to relay your public - postings to a Twitter account. - -License -======= - -The _StatusNet Connector_ is licensed under the [3-clause BSD license][3] see the -LICENSE file in the addons directory. - -[3]: http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause +The _Twitter Connector_ is licensed under the [3-clause BSD license][2] see the LICENSE file in the addons directory. +The _Twitter Connector_ uses the [Twitter OAuth library][2] by Abraham Williams, MIT licensed +[1]: http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause +[2]: https://github.com/abraham/twitteroauth