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How to set up Max Twitter triggers with Xively and Zapier

note: 6/2021 – Everything on this post no longer works, except the idea. See Internetsensors posts for current methods

notes

pachube.com and cosm.com have now changed into xively.com. Also Twitter has migrated to the version 1.1 API. The old method of sending tweets with cosm.com no longer works as of of June 2013.

Here are revised instructions for setting up an intermediary program that allows you to send Tweets from Max/MSP using a xively.com “device” (feed). This setup is required by the tweetCurl patches in the Max/MSP internet sensors project:

https://reactivemusic.net/?p=5859

Summary: the Max program will issue an http: put request to your xively.com feed with the Tweet text as data. When the data is received it triggers a request to xapier.com which logs into your Twitter account and sends the Tweet. xapier.com handles authentication using Oauth.

1. set up a xively.com account (self explanatory)

2. add a device. From the xively.com home page select “develop” from the “web tools” menu. You’ll get a screen like this one:

Click on +add device. The following screen will appear:

Fill in the fields. The names and choices can be whatever you want.  Then click the “Add Device” box to get the following screen:

Now click on +Add Channel. Fill in the Channel ID field with the name: tweet (as shown below) then click the “save channel” box.

3. Add Trigger. The trigger will link this channel to Twitter. Please follow the instructions here: https://xively.com/dev/tutorials/zapier/

Notes:

  • You will need to sign up for a free zapier account
  • assign Twitter as your action service for the “zap”
  • For the ‘message’ field of your zap select “body trigger datastream value value”. This will be the actual text of the tweet coming from xively.com
  • limited to 10 tweets per hour
  • when you select twitter as an action in zapier, it will attempt to log you in to do the oauth authentication. If you are already logged into Twitter – make sure its the correct account.
  • zapier will provide you with the URL to insert into the trigger field in your xively.com device.
4. From the xively.com device screen copy the feed-ID and API-key into your Max patch in the appropriate fields.

 

 

 

 

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How to change Twitter trigger with Xively to use Zapier

notes

This method was used to fix the tweetcurl series of Max patches and anything else which uses Tom Igoe’s method of sending tweets from Arduino via cosm.

http://www.tigoe.com/pcomp/code/arduinowiring/1135/ (old method)

The automatic twitter trigger used in the “internet sensors” project via cosm, stopped working when cosm migrated to xively.com. But it works correctly from a device (or Max) to xively. So you don’t need to change anything except the xively trigger associated with the feed.

The fix is to go into your xively feed (legacy feed) delete the existing trigger and set up a new trigger using zapier – using the instructions in this tutorial.

https://xively.com/dev/tutorials/zapier/

Notes:

  • You will need to sign up for a free zapier account
  • the text value of the tweet for zapier is called “body trigger datastream value value”
  • limited to 10 tweets per hour
  • when you select Twitter as an action in zapier, it will attempt to log you in to do the oauth authentication. If you are already logged into Twitter – make sure its the correct account.

If you really want to send Tweets from Max, check out the Twitter client that uses ruby: https://reactivemusic.net/?p=7013