Sync your Ghost blog with Twitter and Linkedin [aka build your own Zapier]
Zapier is great, I just wanted to see if I can build something myself and self host it.
11/2022 Update: Updated repo.
I wrote a few scripts and automated them with cron on my server.
The Above Average Jeremy / ghost_blog_sync · GitLab
This is a little script that will grab old Ghost blog posts and the post them to Twitter and Mastodon via APIs
Here is the basic workflow of the main sync script:
Use the Ghost API to get all the old posts from blog API
Look for post tags
If tag does not exist, create it and add object to list
Otherwise grab that tag object and drop into list
Check if posts exists and has already been tweeted
Add the post to the DB
Make post tags into hashtags
Ignore Linkedin
Send post to twitter
Go to sleep for 45 seconds to not get rate limited on twitter API
Finish
I created a command line script to post to Twitter using Tweepy and a script to post to Linkedin. Linkedin's authentication is goofy, so for now I just disabled that and use the free version of Zapier [Thanks Zapier for doing the heavy lifting].
You can find the scripts here. The SQLite DB is just there to keep track of my previous posts, you'd probably want to delete it and create your own if you use the repo.
Have fun
