Get Tweets

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2887987

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Get Tweets

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This module provides import tweets through Twitter API by Cron for Drupal 8.

Registration with Twitter:

Before you start the installation process you must register on Twitter and create your own application.
You will get "Consumer Key", "Consumer Secret".

Highlights include:

  • ability to import multiple feeds of tweets in nodes;
  • ability to import tweets by hashtags or user names;
  • tweets and tweet data are saved in nodes;
  • option to delete old tweets;
  • creation of linked URLs from URLs, hash tags, and mentions inside the feed;
  • importing hash tags, mentions, images (saving external image link and local image) in separate fields.

Requirements:

PHP versions listed as "active support" or "security fixes only" are supported.

Dependencies:

This module needs to be installed via Composer, which will download the required libraries.

Installation:

  1. Download the module via Composer(composer require drupal/get_tweets);
  2. Enable it;
  3. Go to /admin/config/content/get_tweets and set your credentials;
  4. Done. Your tweets are now importing in nodes.

More API documentation can be found at Twitter API.