How to send public tweets with image attached?

❓ Question I’m in the process converting my app, that currently uses twurl to send out tweets like this, into using apprise because of its broad support for notification channels. My tweets are public, have a body text and attach an image. I obviously already have Twitter creds to be able to do this.

Currently, using twurl, this is a 2 step process (see example in bash script below) that works reliably:

• first upload the image and receive a json object that contains an Media ID
• then send a tweet with body text that references the Media ID

# upload the image and get a Media ID:
TW_MEDIA_ID=$(twurl -X POST -H upload.twitter.com "/1.1/media/upload.json" -f /tmp/snapshot.png -F media | sed -n 's/.*\"media_id\":\([0-9]*\).*/\1/p')
# Send a tweet and reference the Media ID to be used
LINK=$(echo `twurl -r "status=$TWEETTEXT&media_ids=$TW_MEDIA_ID" /1.1/statuses/update.json` | tee -a /tmp/tweets.log | jq '.entities."urls" | .[] | .url' | tr -d '\"')
# LINK now contains the URL of the tweet

Switching to apprise, I an able to successfully send tweets without images and I’m grateful to no longer have to make my body text html-safe:

apprise -b "$TWEETTEXT" twitter://$TWITTER_CONSKEY/$TWITTER_CONSSECRET/$TWITTER_ACCTOKEN/$TWITTER_ACCSECRET/?mode=tweet

Attempt 1: I tried adding the media ID and body in a single request using apprise: didn’t work

apprise -a file:///tmp/snapshot.png -b "$TWEET" twitter://$TWITTER_CONSKEY/$TWITTER_CONSSECRET/$TWITTER_ACCTOKEN/$TWITTER_ACCSECRET/?mode=tweet

Attempt 2: I tried to upload the file attachment without body, and apprise complained of not having any text in the body

apprise -a file:///tmp/snapshot.png twitter://$TWITTER_CONSKEY/$TWITTER_CONSSECRET/$TWITTER_ACCTOKEN/$TWITTER_ACCSECRET/?mode=tweet 

Could someone help me with an example (command line would be fine) of how to do what I want? Generally, there’s a single PNG image that I have available as a file, and the text is curated to be of proper size for public tweeting.

Once I’m done with Twitter, my next target is Discord using a Webhook. Hopefully the Twitter answer will be analogous to what I need to do for Discord.

Thanks!

[kx1t]

Thanks so much for your efforts. I got sidetracked a bit with solving some performance bugs on my project, but I’m really looking forward to incorporate this. I will keep you updated on the progress and use of Apprise in my project.

[kx1t]

thanks – that would be something that I’d greatly appreciate, as it’d a prerequisite for me to be able to switch to apprise. For the rest – this will make my life writing notifiers so much easier!

When do you think this will be available? Weeks? Months?

About Twitter - you should understand that their terminology has changed a bit.

• The Consumer Keys are now called “API Keys” and “API Secrets”, that are available under the Consumer Keys section.
• “Access Key / Secret” is still called the same, but they fall now under “Authentication Tokens”. You need to make sure to create these with Read/Write/DM capabilities, otherwise Tweeting won’t work.
• Additionally, Twitter is now tiering their access level, and you need to request “Elevated” access to be able to send Tweets through an API. This is free, but you need to write a short motivation.