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BluebirdPS: A Twitter Automation Client for PowerShell 7

Welcome to the online documentation for BluebirdPS, a Twitter automation client for PowerShell 7.

Work in Progress

Please consider this a work in progress. At this point, anything and everything could changed.

Also, expect errors, though I have tried to keep those at minimum.

Community Module

This module is still very much developed for the community and will gladly accept feedback from the community to make this module do what you need it to do, while adhering to the Twitter API design and PowerShell best practices.

Examples

(Search-Tweet -SearchString "(from:rtpsug)" -MaxResults 100).statuses

Get-TwitterListByOwner -ScreenName thedavecarroll

Publish-Tweet -TweetText "Continuing work on the #PowerShell Twitter module. Check it out! http://bit.ly/PwshTwitterModule"

More Than Meets the Eye

This module includes output to the Information stream containing details on the call (or calls) made to Twitter.

Here is an example of how to access it and what it contains.

$ListMember = Get-TwitterListMember -Slug mylist -OwnerScreenName myscreenname -ResutsPerPage 100 -InformationVariable MyListMemberInfo
$MyListMemberInfo.MessageData

Output:

Command            : Get-TwitterListMember
HttpMethod         : GET
Uri                : https://api.twitter.com/1.1/lists/members.json
QueryString        : ?count=100&cursor=-1&include_entities=true&owner_screen_name=ossia&slug=devafter30
Status             : 200 OK
Server             : tsa_b
ResponseTime       : 801
RateLimit          : 900
RateLimitRemaining : 819
RateLimitReset     : 10/13/2020 12:50:37 PM
Response           : {[Cache-Control, System.String[]], [Date, System.String[]], [Pragma, System.String[]], [Server, System.String[]]…}

Command            : Get-TwitterListMember
HttpMethod         : GET
Uri                : https://api.twitter.com/1.1/lists/members.json
QueryString        : ?count=100&cursor=4611686020715031288&include_entities=true&owner_screen_name=ossia&slug=devafter30
Status             : 200 OK
Server             : tsa_b
ResponseTime       : 849
RateLimit          : 900
RateLimitRemaining : 818
RateLimitReset     : 10/13/2020 12:50:37 PM
Response           : {[Cache-Control, System.String[]], [Date, System.String[]], [Pragma, System.String[]], [Server, System.String[]]…}

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The Response property contains the raw response from Twitter. This function uses Invoke-TwitterCursorRequest, which takes the next cursor from the returned payload and appends the query appropriately.

You can see the ResponseTime (in milliseconds) along with RateLimit specifics.

Public functions

Here is list of current public functions.

Currently, there are 43 public functions and 10 private functions.

Count Name
Get 26
Set 5
Export 2
Publish 2
Test 2
Add 1
Import 1
Remove 1
Search 1
Send 1
Unpublish 1

Authentication

  • Set-TwitterAuthentication
  • Test-TwitterAuthentication
  • Export-TwitterAuthentication
  • Import-TwitterAuthentication
  • Set-TwitterBearerToken

Set-TwitterBearerToken will be used to set the OAuth v2 bearer token used for some Twitter API v2 endpoints.

Tweets

  • Publish-Tweet
  • Get-Tweet
  • Set-Retweet
  • Set-TweetLike
  • Get-TweetLike

Users, Followers, Friends, and Blocks

  • Get-TwitterTimeline
  • Get-TwitterUser
  • Get-TwitterUserList
  • Get-TwitterFollowers
  • Get-TwitterFriends
  • Get-TwitterFriendship
  • Get-TwitterMutedUser
  • Get-TwitterBlocks

Lists

  • Get-TwitterList
  • Get-TwitterListByOwner
  • Get-TwitterListMember
  • Get-TwitterListSubscriber
  • Get-TwitterListSubscription
  • Get-TwitterListTweets

Searches

  • Search-Tweet
  • Get-TwitterSavedSearch
  • Add-TwitterSavedSearch
  • Remove-TwitterSavedSearch

Media

  • Send-TwitterMedia

Direct Message

  • Get-TwitterDM
  • Publish-TwitterDM
  • Unpublish-TwitterDM

User Profile

  • Get-TwitterUserProfileBanner

Supporting Commands

  • Get-TwitterAccountSettings
  • Get-TwitterConfiguration
  • Get-TwitterLanguages
  • Get-TwitterRateLimitStatus
  • Export-TwitterResource

Helper Commands

These functions do not connect to Twitter directly.

  • Get-TwitterApiEndpoint
  • Get-TwitterHistory
  • Get-TwitterRateLimitWarning
  • Set-TwitterRateLimitWarning
  • Test-SearchString

Command Verbs

Verb Usage Example
Get Get a resource Get-TwitterTimeLine -Home
Publish Tweet or Direct Message Publish-Tweet -TweetText 'Check out this pic of #Snoopy' -MediaId $UploadedPic.media_id
Unpublish Delete Tweet or Direct Message Unpublish-TwitterDM -DirectMessageId 1239876543210147852
Set Like, Unlink, Retweet, Unretweet Set-Tweet -Id 12345567896321478 -Like
Search Text search for a user or tweet Search-Tweet -SearchString '#PSTweetChat'
Send Send media Send-TwitterMedia -Path $PathToImage -Category TweetImage -AltImageText 'A bowl of froot loops'

Private Functions

API Calls

The module has three functions that will make API calls dependent on if it's a single request, a cursored request, or a paged request.

  • Invoke-TwitterCursorRequest
  • Invoke-TwitterPageRequest
  • Invoke-TwitterRequest

Responses

The Write-TwitterResponseData function handles all of the non-error output, which includes sending key response data to the Information stream.

For the most part, the output is the response from Invoke-Method. The output of some commands contains only the property that's required which should always be an array of other others.

The function that handles errors, New-TwitterErrorRecord, also sends response data to the Information stream.

API Authentication

OAuthParameters Class

The cornerstone of the module is the [OAuthParameters] class which handles moving the URL and query to Invoke-TwitterRequest. It's primary function (method, actually) is to generate the OAuth signature string.

Things to Do

  • Expand build scripts
  • Pester tests
  • TweetText processor (currently there no check for length)
  • Exploration of PIN-OAuth
  • This will entail a security discussion on key storage
  • Additional commands
  • Twitter API V2 Endpoints