Use GitHub Copilot to Send a Tweet
At face value, programmatically sending a tweet doesn’t seem practical. Regardless of how experienced you are as an engineer, using a new API and navigating documentation can be overwhelming at first. GitHub Copilot can help you navigate syntax and unfamiliar APIs. In this Shortcut, I’ll show you how GitHub Copilot can expedite the process of interacting with new APIs. In this particular example, I used GitHub Copilot to use Twitter API v2 for the first time.
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Step 1: Sign Up for a Twitter Developer Account
You can find the information on signing up for a Twitter Developer Account in X’s documentation.
Step 2: Create an App on the Twitter Developer Platform
This step will help you generate the necessary tokens and keys to access Twitter’s API. Please note: this is not creating an application that exists on an app store. Instead, this refers to the “app” you’re building to interact with APIs with Twitter’s API. Save the consumer secret, consumer key, access token, and access token secret because we will use those credentials later in this Shortcut.
Step 3: Enable GitHub Copilot
To enable GitHub Copilot, navigate to https://github.com/settings/copilot. This should bring you to a page with a button that prompts you to enable ...
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