Tweeting from a django application

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A recent feature request for hatch was to have a twitter feed. A twitter feed would allow people to be notified when new config templates are created via twitter.

%{--- %{project_name}%/settings.py ---}% TWITTER_ACCOUNTS = { 'public': { 'consumer_key': '%{consumer_key}%', 'consumer_secret': '%{consumer_secret}%', 'access_token_key': '%{access_token_key}%, 'access_token_secret': '%{access_token_secret}%' }, } %{--- %{project_name}%/%{application_name}%/models.py ---}% from django.contrib.sites.models import Site def send_tweet(title, url) import twitter from django.conf import settings try: api = twitter.Api(**account) tweet_message = "%s just added %s" %(title, url) status = api.PostUpdate(tweet_message) exception: # I don't care if the tweet didn't go through. pass def class Post(models.Model) ... ... ... def get_absolute_url(self): #below generates the absolute url for this object return "http://%s/posts/%s" % (Site.objects.get_current().domain, self.slug) def save(self, *args, **kwargs): super(Post, self).save() send_tweet(self.name, self.get_absolute_url())