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@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ The LEAP Web App provides the following functions: * Webfinger access to user’s public keys * Email aliases and forwarding * Localized and Customizable documentation +* Display of status updates from Twitter (access to tweets via Twitter API) Written in: Ruby, Rails. @@ -36,6 +37,7 @@ For more information, see these files in the ``doc`` directory: * DEPLOY -- for notes on deployment. * DEVELOP -- for developer notes. * CUSTOM -- how to customize. +* TWITTER_FEED -- how to use it. External docs: @@ -186,30 +188,3 @@ Known problems attacks. These are very hard to prevent, because our protocol is designed to allow query of a user database via proxy in order to provide network perspective. - -Twitter Timeline on Main View ---------------------------- - -This is a feature to include a twitter feed that displays most recent tweets -of a (determined) twitter account (accessed via Twitter API). -If you chose to use it, the feature gets included in `home/index` of -LEAP web app (as part of the main view). - -* Create Twitter Application on https://apps.twitter.com/ - * Visit https://apps.twitter.com/ and log in with the twitter account you want to use - * Make sure you have a mobile phone number registered with your account to be able to proceed - * Choose the option to `Create New App` - * Fill in Application Details and Developer Agreement and `Create your Twitter application` - * Choose the section "Keys and Access Tokens" to get your consumer key and consumer secret - * Optional: Go to section "Permissions" and change the "Access" from `Read and Write` (by default) to `Read only` - * Have your consumer key and secret by hand for one of the next steps - -* Activate the feature within your local LEAP Web Application - * If not already existing create a secrets-file in /config with the name secrets.yml (`/config/secrets.yml`) - * Secrets-file should contain the following, make sure its in YAML: {"development"=> {"twitter"=>{"enabled"=>false, "twitter_handle"=>"", "bearer_token"=>"", "twitter_picture"=>nil}}, "test"=>{"twitter"=>{"enabled"=>false, "twitter_handle"=>"", "bearer_token"=>"", "twitter_picture"=>nil}}} - * To have your bearer token created, run script in terminal being in the file of leap_web: `script/generate_bearer_token` - * To have the script run properly you have to add before running: `--key your_consumerkey --secret your_consumersecret` - * Add also `--projectroot your_projectroot --twitterhandle your_twitterhandle` as well to not have manually put the data in your secrets-file - * The full command looks like this: `script/generate_bearer_token --key your_consumerkey --secret your_consumersecret --projectroot your_projectroot --twitterhandle your_twitterhandle` - * If you didn't give all your information to the script, had a typo or want to change anything else, please do so by finding the secrets-file at `/config/secrets.yml` - * Make sure that the correct twitterhandle and bearer-token is included diff --git a/doc/TWITTER_FEED.md b/doc/TWITTER_FEED.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..12dc1be --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/TWITTER_FEED.md @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +Display of status updates from twitter on main view (access to tweets via Twitter API) +--------------------------- + +This is a feature to include status updates that displays most recent tweets +of a (determined) twitter account (accessed via Twitter API). +If you chose to use it, the feature gets included in `home/index` of +LEAP web app (as part of the main view). + +## How to use it ## + +* Create Twitter Application on https://apps.twitter.com/ + * Visit https://apps.twitter.com/ and log in with the twitter account you want to use + * Make sure you have a mobile phone number registered with your account to be able to proceed + * Choose the option to `Create New App` + * Fill in Application Details and Developer Agreement and `Create your Twitter application` + * Choose the section "Keys and Access Tokens" to get your consumer key and consumer secret + * Optional: Go to section "Permissions" and change the "Access" from `Read and Write` (by default) to `Read only` + * Have your consumer key and secret by hand for one of the next steps + +* Activate the feature within your local LEAP Web Application + * If not already existing create a secrets-file in /config with the name secrets.yml (`/config/secrets.yml`) + * Secrets-file should contain the following, make sure its in YAML: {"development"=> {"twitter"=>{"enabled"=>false, "twitter_handle"=>"", "bearer_token"=>"", "twitter_picture"=>nil}}, "test"=>{"twitter"=>{"enabled"=>false, "twitter_handle"=>"", "bearer_token"=>"", "twitter_picture"=>nil}}} + * To have your bearer token created, run script in terminal being in the file of leap_web: `script/generate_bearer_token` + * To have the script run properly you have to add before running: `--key your_consumerkey --secret your_consumersecret` + * Add also `--projectroot your_projectroot --twitterhandle your_twitterhandle` as well to not have manually put the data in your secrets-file + * The full command looks like this: `script/generate_bearer_token --key your_consumerkey --secret your_consumersecret --projectroot your_projectroot --twitterhandle your_twitterhandle` + * If you didn't give all your information to the script, had a typo or want to change anything else, please do so by finding the secrets-file at `/config/secrets.yml` + * Make sure that the correct twitterhandle and bearer-token is included + +* Deactivate your bearer token + * To deactivate your generated bearer token you can run script/invalidate_bearer_token + * The full command looks like this: script/invalidate_bearer_token --key your_consumerkey --secret your_consumersecret --token your_bearer_token + +### Default avatar image ### + +This feature uses by default the the twitter bird as avatar picture (Twitter_Logo_Blue.png). 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