This is how I post my Hashnode blogs to Twitter automatically by using GitHub Actions. You can see these tweets on my Twitter account.

Costs

Github provides 2,000 minutes a month for free account which is plenty!
This GitHub action only uses 20s / 1 billable minute

Setup Hashnode API

First, check out this awesome blog by Catalin about the Hashnode API and make sure you can call the API and your blogs
Load the Hashnode API playground https://api.hashnode.com/

Setup your Hashnode API playground like so, including your own blog name if hasnode playground hasn't done it for you already

{
user(username: "<ADD_YOUR_BLOG_USERNAME") {
  publication {
    posts(page: 0) {
      title
      brief
      slug

    }
  }
}
}

Create a GitHub Action

Follow this my previous blog on how to tweet using GitHub actions
Add some more steps before the tweet step

Add fetching Hashnode API

    # API request https://github.com/marketplace/actions/http-request-action
    - name: Deploy Stage
      id: myRequest
      uses: fjogeleit/http-request-action@master
      with:
        url: 'https://api.hashnode.com/'
        method: 'POST'
        data: '{"query":"{\n  user(username: \"<ADD_YOUR_USERNAME>\") {\n    publication {\n      posts(page: 0) {\n        title\n        brief\n        slug\n      }\n    }\n  }\n}\n"}'
        customHeaders: '{"headers": {"Content-Type": "application/json"}}'

Add another step to check your response

    - name: Show Response
      run: echo ${{ steps.myRequest.outputs.response }}

Add a JavaScript executor to run some JavaScript to modify the query

# Sort Json array https://github.com/marketplace/actions/execute-javascript-inline
    - name: Execute JavaScript inline
      id: quoteFiltered
      uses: satackey/action-js-inline@v0.0.2
      with:
        # Edit the following line to install packages required to run your script.
        required-packages: axios
        script: |
          //setup
          const core = require('@actions/core')
          const axios = require('axios')

          //set output from other step            
          const quoteJson = ${{ steps.myRequest.outputs.response }}

          //Filter what blog to receive 
          randomNumber = Math.floor(Math.random() * 6);            
          const title = (String(quoteJson['data']['user']['publication']['posts'][randomNumber]['title']));
          const slug = (String(quoteJson['data']['user']['publication']['posts'][randomNumber]['slug']));
          //What tweet contents will be
          const finalQuote = (title+' '+'https://blog.azcodez.com/'+slug+'{ by @az_codez } from @hashnode #softwaredevelopment #coding #softwareengineering #programming #techblog') 

          console.log(finalQuote)

          //Output
          core.setOutput('finalQuote', finalQuote)

Make sure you run your GitHub action multiple times to check what you are going to tweet is correct and GitHub Action passes

Now add your tweet to Twitter step

# Tweet to twitter https://github.com/marketplace/actions/tweet-to-twitter
    - name: TweetToTwitter
      uses: InfraWay/tweet-action@v1.0.1
      with:
        status: ${{ steps.quoteFiltered.outputs.finalQuote }}
        api_key: ${{ secrets.TWITTER_API_KEY }}
        api_key_secret: ${{ secrets.TWITTER_API_SECRET_KEY }}
        access_token: ${{ secrets.TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
        access_token_secret: ${{ secrets.TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET }}

Credits

Github Actions Image coletiv.com/blog/android-github-actions-setup
Twitter image https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/10/magazine/who-made-that-twitter-bird.html

Shameless Plugs

Now you don't have to worry about reposing your blogs!

Hope this helps😁

Feel free to comment with questions or feedback✌️

Happy coding,

Az 👨🏾‍💻

Automatically Tweet Hashnode blogs using GitHub Actions

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