/laterpost

Simple Twitter Status update or social media post scheduling app built using Laravel and Vue.js

Primary LanguagePHPMIT LicenseMIT

Laterpost (NOT MAINTAINED ANYMORE)

Open source platform for scheduling twitter status updates.

Installation

Step 1: Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/mrgodhani/laterpost

Step 2: Prerequisites

This will install the dependencies of this website. It will pull in several packages like Lumen Framework, Vue, Vueify, vue-router, gulp and Laravel Elixir (this is just magic syntactical sugar for gulp, basically).

composer install
php artisan migrate
php artisan jwt:secret
npm install

Step 3: Run Gulp

gulp --production

Step 4: Configure environment variables

Configure environment variables and add keys for Twitter. Just copy .env.example file by executing command cp .env.example .env . In my case I used Amazon S3 for temporary storing uploaded images. But please free feel to use any driver you want.

TWITTER_CLIENT_ID=
TWITTER_CLIENT_SECRET=
TWITTER_CLIENT_CALLBACK=

BITLY_KEY=
BITLY_SECRET=
BITLY_REDIRECT_URI=

AMAZON_KEY=
AMAZON_SECRET=
AMAZON_BUCKET=
AMAZON_REGION=

Step 5: Serve

php artisan serve

For scheduling posts and queues setup cronjob as following:

* * * * * php /path/to/artisan schedule:run >> /dev/null 2>&1

You also have to setup queue driver in your .env file and also configure supervisor to run worker to watch that specific tube.

QUEUE_DRIVER=beanstalkd

Configuring supervisor example:

[program:laravel-worker]
process_name=%(program_name)s_%(process_num)02d
command=php /home/forge/app.com/artisan queue:work beanstalkd --sleep=3 --tries=3 --daemon
autostart=true
autorestart=true
user=forge
numprocs=8
redirect_stderr=true
stdout_logfile=/home/forge/app.com/worker.log

Features

  • Multi account for twitter
  • Email and password login
  • Scheduling twitter status updates to multiple account
  • Managing connected social media accounts and other account settings (i.e password change, timezone change and email update)
  • Sending twitter update with image (Currently supports 1 image upload only)
  • Character counting similar to twitter
  • Editing scheduled tweets
  • URL Shorterner feature (bit.ly integration)
  • Multi image upload
  • Slack integration to notify user when all pending scheduled queues are empty.
  • Integrating Facebook

Linkedin apparently cannot be integrated because of limitation of API availability.

Demo and Live application

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Support / Contribution

Please feel free to give suggestion or report bug by creating issue or letting me know on twitter @mrgodhani.