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 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 nytimes.com/2014/08/10/magazine/who-made-th..

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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 👨🏾‍💻