will3942/fsq2twitter

Ruby application to update a user's Twitter Profile Location to their latest Foursquare checkin in realtime.

Foursquare2Twitter

Ruby application to update a user's Twitter Profile Location to their latest Foursquare checkin in realtime.

Dependencies

1. screen
2. ruby
3. sinatra (gem)
4. openssl
5. webrick (gem)
6. json (gem)
7. oauth (gem)
8. RestClient (gem)
9. nginx (or apache but config not included)

Installation

1.Clone files

$ git clone https://github.com/will3942/fsq2twitter.git  
$ cd fsq2twitter 

2.Generate self-signed SSL certificates or install other ones. To generate follow the article here. Copy these into the "ssl" folder in the "fsq2twitter" folder.

3.Edit the nginx config file with your domain name and ssl certificate locations

$ sudo mv nginx-f2t-conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/  
$ sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/nginx-f2t-conf  
$ sudo service nginx reload  

4.Edit the fsq2twitter app file with your information. Generate the oauth keys and access tokens at https://foursquare.com/developers/ and https://dev.twitter.com/ . For twitter make sure "read and write" access is enabled for the access token.

5.Launch the script and keep it running in the background.

$ screen -S fsq2twitter  
$ ruby app.rb  

6.Done!

Copyright

All code in this script is Copyright Will Evans 2013. Contact me:
Twitter
Email
App.net

LICENSE

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0, detailed in the LICENSE file.