Maybe the list subscribers could chime in on whether they liked the style of the digest I sent earlier. It comes in html, but I converted to text, and it seemed to work well. I'll send you a copy, Rick, offline.
Thanks, Yosem On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 1:25 PM, Rick Valenzuela <r...@rickv.com> wrote: > Oh, IFTT could be a good, easy solution too; I haven't looked at IFTTT > in a long time, but it should be easy to create a recipe for this. > Are you happy with the output of the IFTT email from the recipe you're > using? > > I would guess that for the mailing list, you might want only the tweet > text, the specific tweet's URL (the short URL, the full URL and/or the > display URL) and maybe the URL for the article linked within the tweet. > That would be easy to isolate from the Python script. > > Also, are you looking for HTML to plop into the email, or only plaintext? > > Rick > > > On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 12:57:26PM -0800, Yosem Companys wrote: > >> This is great, Rick. Thank you. >> >> Last night I found one called "If @user tweets, send me a daily mail" on >> IFTTT, and that is the one I used today. But if we can do something better >> than that, by all means! >> >> Thanks, >> Yosem >> >> On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 12:53 PM, Rick Valenzuela <li...@rickv.com> >> wrote: >> >> What do you want the format to look like? You can pull out the data in >>> JSON format, but the basic get writes out all the metadata associated >>> with the tweet. >>> I cobbled together a Python script here: https://gist.github.com/rveebl >>> efetzer/0f65c6d9ebcee640f33d18f9585af03f >>> >>> (Note that you need to put in your own API/OAuth info) >>> >>> Right now it takes the last 10 tweets from the account and puts them >>> into a text file as JSON. With a little more info, it could be written >>> to parse that and output the details you need in the format you'd >>> prefer. >>> I could put this up in a repo, if others want to tweak and test it. >>> Time's a little tight for me right now, but I can take a whack at it >>> here and there. >>> >>> Best, >>> Rick >>> >>> -- >>> Rick Valenzuela >>> Videojournalist >>> Shanghai, China >>> >>> GPG: 0x054124ADD5644029 >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 02:40:53PM -0800, Yosem Companys wrote: >>> >>> OK, so how about we create a digest of the day's Tweets on >>>> @Liberationtech >>>> and send them every morning? Then subscribers will receive one email a >>>> day >>>> and decide if any of the tweets are worth discussing. >>>> >>>> Does anyone know of a good app that does this? I've found a lot of apps >>>> online that claim to do so, but the majority are dead. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Yosem >>>> >>>> On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 4:21 PM, Andrés Pacheco <alps6...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> I'm all for more news, total, aren't we swamped with spam already as it >>>> >>>>> is? So libre tech news from the twitter feed would help improve the >>>>> ratio >>>>> of spam to good stuff in our inbox. >>>>> >>>>> Tagging is for sissies and I assume this list is full of superduper >>>>> smart >>>>> techies nerds that don't need no stinking badges to filter classify >>>>> sort >>>>> autodeletearchivefile incoming email, oh god how much I miss now emacs >>>>> mhmail, "la última Coca-Cola del desierto, or isn't it?😈 >>>>> >>>>> BTW I'm unemployed starting 2 days gym now svdcresfy to join the >>>>> resistance, drop me a live if you have something anywhere that you >>>>> might >>>>> think would interest me in the world of ICT4-dev-social/migrant/youth/ >>>>> anybody's >>>>> Justice etc >>>>> >>>>> Regards | Saludos, >>>>> >>>>> Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes >>>>> <a...@acm.org> >>>>> >>>>> > On Feb 5, 2017, at 2:59 PM, José María Mateos <ch...@rinzewind.org> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> > >>>>> > On Sun, Feb 05, 2017 at 03:41:18PM +0100, carlo von lynX wrote: >>>>> >>> - I'd rather have two mailing lists only: one for discussions (all >>>>> >>> type of discussions) and one for announcements. If everything >>>>> goes >>>>> >>> into the same list, at least have the announcements clearly >>>>> tagged >>>>> >>> so they can be easily filtered. >>>>> >> >>>>> >> Okay, but please start with a clone of the subscriptions >>>>> >> so we don't have to manually subscribe both to recreate >>>>> >> the status quo. >>>>> >> >>>>> >> Also, please put an automatic Reply-To: in the announcements >>>>> >> that leads to the discussion list. I personally would still >>>>> >> merge both streams into the same folder because I find it >>>>> >> interesting whenever libtech people have a comment to add to >>>>> >> a piece of news. >>>>> > >>>>> > Agree with this. >>>>> > >>>>> >>> - An e-mail with news every 10 minutes may be too much. Wouldn't >>>>> >>> it be better to have a daily news digest of some sort? Then >>>>> anyone >>>>> >>> could start a discussion based on it. >>>>> >> >>>>> >> I guess most of us absorb the "news" by just grasping what >>>>> >> the subject line says, then decide what is worth digging >>>>> >> into. A digest format would impede that kind of fast absorption. >>>>> >> Anyone who prefers digests can still choose the digest feature >>>>> >> of the mailing list software... right? >>>>> > >>>>> > Yes, as long as the Twitter news is sent to a list that doesn't >>>>> include >>>>> the discussions per se (or are flagged with a [Twitter] tag in the >>>>> subject >>>>> line so they can be filtered.) >>>>> > >>>>> > Cheers, >>>>> > >>>>> > JMM. >>>>> > -- >>>>> > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. >>>>> Violations >>>>> of list guidelines will get you moderated: >>>>> https://mailman.stanford.edu/ >>>>> mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. 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