DEV Community: Tod Sacerdoti

GitHub Profile View Counter

Tod Sacerdoti — Fri, 10 Jul 2020 18:29:26 +0000

This hosted workflow allows you to track Github profile views and display them in your profile readme, for free.

This project was inspired Artem Golubin's post How to track and display profile views on GitHub.

As part of recent design changes, GitHub has introduced READMEs for profiles. By creating a repo with your name and adding README.md file with markdown to it, you can now add a rich description of yourself.

Usage

Copy this workflow to your Pipedream account
Create a readme.md file for your GitHub profile (see instructions)
Add the counter image to your Github Readme (use your Pipedream endpoint URL)

    ![counter](https://[YOUR_ENDPOINT].m.pipedream.net)

Your profile views will be counted and displayed:

Workflow

Code

Click here to to copy and deploy to your Pipedream account.

This tweet has 78k+ impressions, 200+ likes & 40+ retweets

Tod Sacerdoti — Tue, 19 May 2020 15:41:14 +0000

This tweet updates itself...https://t.co/FwNRzUaxtu
— Tod Sacerdoti (@tod ) May 20, 2020

In fact, the exact metrics for this tweet are:

78374 impressions
246 likes
42 retweets
5 quotes
5 replies

The reason the title doesn't include the exact numbers is due to limitations of the Twitter API, which I will get to later.

View the live workflow code here.

This workflow is powered by Pipedream's impossibly fast serverless integration platform and was inspired by similar self-reflexive automation efforts on Hacker News and YouTube.

How this workflow works (in three easy steps):

1. Event Source - emits new events when Tweet Metrics change

Note: Since the Twitter Tweet Metrics API is in preview, you must have your own Twitter developer credentials and activate the preview in your developer account.

2. Code Step - Dev.to post in markdown with title and description

3. Action - update the article using the Dev.to API

Why does the tweet not update in real time?

Unfortunately, Twitter doesn't update the data of twitter cards in real time, which is why the metrics are rounded in the tweet
Twitter cards can be updated via the Card Validator
However, doing this programmatically would violate Twitter's Developer Terms
Twitter says DO NOT "use non-API-based forms of automation, such as scripting the Twitter website. The use of these techniques may result in the permanent suspension of your account."

Why not build your own?

View the live workflow code here
Copy the workflow into your account
Add your Twitter / Dev.to credentials and make any code changes
Deploy the workflow and you are live

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Tod Sacerdoti — Tue, 19 May 2020 03:16:05 +0000

RSS for Hackers

Tod Sacerdoti — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 20:35:05 +0000

We @pipedream launched RSS for Hackers!

Process RSS feeds programmatically, for free
Run any Node.js code on new items
Pre-built functions can send data to destinations
Access events in your app using SSE or REST API

Try it out https://rss.pipedream.com