twitter-2-gmail

Twitter to GMail using a template

In this quickstart we will demonstrate setting up a Twitter search that runs periodically and send matches out as email using the GMail API. There are two prerequisites:

• you need a Twitter App already registered with Twitter. If you have not done this, then please follow the Twitter App Registration instructions. Note that you will have to wait till your Developer account is approved by Twitter so in that case it's not really quick start.
• you need a Google Project with access to the GMail API. Please follow Google API Creds

Screencast of this Quickstart

Link to a screencast of this quickstart on our youtube channel:

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Getting Started

First we need to set up a Connection using the Twitter Connector. For that you need to go to connections and click the Create Connection button.

Figure 1. Create Connection

Figure 2. Configure Connection

Figure 3. Twitter OAuth Authorization

Figure 4. Name the Connection

Figure 5. Notice the new Shiny Twitter Connection

Secondly you will need to do the same exact thing for the GMail Connector to create a GMail Connection.

Setting up the Integration

You can follow with the video above to build the integration or you can import the Twitter2Gmail-export.zip, or you can create the a brand new integration.

The Start is a Twitter connecton that executes a search every 5 seconds for

syndesis

also set a checkmark at Ignore tweets previously found.

Figure 6. Twitter Start Connection

Figure 7. Gmail Finish Connection

add a Template Step between Start and Finish and import the gmail.tmpl template file.

Figure 8. Add Template Step

then insert two datamapper steps

Figure 9. Add Twitter to Template Datamapper Step

CreatedAt -> body.time
text -> body.text
user/screenname -> body.name

Figure 10. Add Template to GMail Datamapper Step

message -> text

You are now ready to deploy the integration, and you should start receiving emails at the address you configured in the Finish Connection.

What did we learn?

• We learned how to use OAuth Credentials to create a Twitter Connection.
• We learned how to use OAuth Credentials to create a GMail Connection.
• We learned how to use a Twitter Search.
• We learned how to use a Template Step.
• We learned how to use a GMail Connection to send out emails.
• We learned to use the datamapper to map data from the Twitter search response into the Template Step.
• We learned to use the datamapper to map data from the Template Step to an email body.