Hi all
Working on a FREE online staking and rewards crypto rates comparator, I wanted to tweet stuff based on the data I collect. For example, an increase of a rate, or a new coin.
For this, when I retrieve the data, I populate a mongo collection with the text I want to share and the destination network (mainly twitter and reddit).
I also made a whole framework to have different variations of texts and, of course, markdown version (for reddit) and text version (for twitter)
Now, with this collection filled, I wanted to tweet those informations on the best schedule possible, as Buffer does.
To do this, I discovered Github Actions cron functionality.
name: optimal-cron-for-twitter
on:
schedule:
- cron: '58 17 * * MON'
- cron: '49 17 * * MON'
- cron: '32 13 * * TUE'
- cron: '58 17 * * TUE'
- cron: '49 21 * * TUE'
- cron: '32 13 * * WED'
- cron: '58 17 * * WED'
- cron: '49 21 * * WED'
- cron: '32 13 * * THU'
- cron: '58 17 * * THU'
- cron: '49 21 * * THU'
- cron: '32 13 * * FRI'
- cron: '58 17 * * FRI'
- cron: '49 21 * * FRI'
- cron: '32 13 * * SAT'
- cron: '58 17 * * SAT'
- cron: '49 21 * * SAT'
- cron: '32 13 * * SUN'
- cron: '58 17 * * SUN'
- cron: '49 21 * * SUN'
jobs:
cron:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: optimal-cron-for-twitter
run: |
curl --request POST \
--url 'https://stakingcrypto.io/api/cron/optimal-cron-for-twitter' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer ${{ secrets.CRON_APP_KEY }}'
This basically will, every perfect time for posting, get back one tweet and post it to my twitter account @stakingcryptoio.
Github cron is setup for the GMT timezone and I adapted the best times for New York.
What about you, what schedule do you use to post on twitter optimally?
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