hackage2twitter: Send new Hackage releases to Twitter

The hackage2twitter program reads the Hackage RSS feed and tweets each new release to @Hackage on Twitter.

This program is currently running, and you can just follow @Hackage if your interested in releases of new packages. However, if you’re interested in the implementation, you can download and install this program to run against your own Twitter account.

This program is build on the feed2twitter library, and is an example of how to use that library.

The Hackage feed is read only once. To keep updating, call this program every few minutes in a cron job.

A local cache of the last 50 tweets is kept in a file to make sure no duplicates are sent.

Usage

If you want to run hackage2twitter on your Twitter acount, you can use it like so:

$ hackage2twitter username password cache-file [--debug-mode]

Installing hackage2twitter

The current version of hackage2twitter is 0.2.0 and is available on Hackage.

If you have cabal-install (which you really should have, by the way), the package can be installed like so:

cabal update
cabal install hackage2twitter

If you don’t have cabal-install, you can manually download and install hackage2twitter:

wget http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/hackage2twitter/0.2.0/hackage2twitter-0.2.0.tar.gz
tar xzf hackage2twitter-0.2.0.tgz
cd hackage2twitter-0.2.0
./Setup.lhs configure --user
./Setup.lhs build
./Setup.lhs install