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title: Introducing the Drupal Meetups Twitterbot
date: 2017-06-09
excerpt: I’ve written a twitterbot for promoting Drupal meetups.
tags:
  - twitter
  - php
---

<p class="text-center" markdown="1">![](/images/blog/drupal-meetups-twitterbot.png)</p>

The [Drupal Meetups Twitterbot][0] is a small project that I worked on a few
months ago, but hadn't got around to promoting yet. It’s intention is to provide
[one Twitter account][1] where people can get the up to date news from various
Drupal meetups.

It works by having a whitelist of [Twitter accounts and hashtags][2] to search
for, uses [Codebird][3] to query the Twitter API and retweets any matching
tweets on a scheduled basis.

If you would like your meetup group to be added to the list of searched
accounts, please [open an issue][4] on the GitHub repo.

[0]: https://github.com/opdavies/drupal-meetups-twitterbot
[1]: https://twitter.com/drupal_meetups
[2]:
  https://github.com/opdavies/drupal-meetups-twitterbot/blob/master/bootstrap/config.php
[3]: https://www.jublo.net/projects/codebird/php
[4]: https://github.com/opdavies/drupal-meetups-twitterbot/issues/new
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 								title: Introducing the Drupal Meetups Twitterbot
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+								The [Drupal Meetups Twitterbot][0] is a small project that I worked on a few
 								months ago, but hadn't got around to promoting yet. It’s intention is to provide
 								[one Twitter account][1] where people can get the up to date news from various
 								Drupal meetups.
-												Add blog post

											
										
										
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-												Run prettier on all *.md files

```
prettier '{app,source}/**/**.md' --write
```

											
										
										
											2020-03-08 17:52:59 +00:00
+								It works by having a whitelist of [Twitter accounts and hashtags][2] to search
 								for, uses [Codebird][3] to query the Twitter API and retweets any matching
 								tweets on a scheduled basis.
-												Add blog post

											
										
										
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-												Run prettier on all *.md files

```
prettier '{app,source}/**/**.md' --write
```

											
										
										
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+								If you would like your meetup group to be added to the list of searched
 								accounts, please [open an issue][4] on the GitHub repo.
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 								[0]: https://github.com/opdavies/drupal-meetups-twitterbot
 								[1]: https://twitter.com/drupal_meetups
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```
prettier '{app,source}/**/**.md' --write
```

											
										
										
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 								  https://github.com/opdavies/drupal-meetups-twitterbot/blob/master/bootstrap/config.php
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+								[3]: https://www.jublo.net/projects/codebird/php
 								[4]: https://github.com/opdavies/drupal-meetups-twitterbot/issues/new