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

Support / Contribution

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