That's actually really impressive Alex, thanks a lot for sharing it! On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 1:32 PM, Alex Tsai <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all, > > I whipped up something quick for Buffer <http://buffer.com> (buffer.com) > integration - it's intended as a replacement for the mezzanine.twitter > BlogPost publish and allows you to take advantage of some of Buffer's > features, such as supporting multiple social network profiles, > automatically scheduling your updates (spacing them apart) and scheduling > updates in the future. > > It's a bit primitive right now and has a fairly annoying bug in that it > doesn't actually work from the list view for BlogPosts, and my > documentation is more or less nonexistent, but since I'm probably done > working on this for the weekend, figured I'd share it. > > You will need to create a Buffer account and also create an app > <https://buffer.com/developers/apps/create> to obtain an access token. > > You can install it with: > > pip install mezzanine-buffer --process-dependency-links > > > Unfortunately, the buffer-python library is outdated on pypi (and in fact, > that version 1.07 is actually broken in that it's missing subpackages when > installed) so the --process-dependency-links is required to install it from > github master. > > This may be useful to you if you are interested in publishing your blog > posts to multiple social networks (really anything Buffer supports should > be supported) and if you're interested in spacing out your tweets. > > pypi link - https://pypi.python.org/pypi/mezzanine-buffer > github link - https://github.com/caffodian/mezzanine-buffer > > boring history behind this - we were doing this at work with a mezzanine > driven blog to publish tweets and updates. Our content writers tended to > work within 9-5 so we needed some way to space them out, as well as handle > tweeting for future-published content. Some of us already use Buffer > personally so it seemed like a good fit to take care of these issues. My > in office implementation was even dumber than this, so I rewrote everything > from scratch as a reusable app over the course of today. :) > > cheers, > alex > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Mezzanine Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Stephen McDonald http://jupo.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Mezzanine Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
