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And so autopo.st is born…

Post to Twitter, Facebook and TuneIn

What started as a small project for a couple of my own radio stations has turned out to be a bit of a success!

“Wouldn’t it be great if I could get the name of the songs that were playing on the radio station onto Twitter so that followers could see what was being played” I thought…

So after a but of research and armed with my knowledge of PHP off I set.

Getting the names of the songs to appear on Twitter was relatively easy. A bit of PHP coding, some BASH scripting and off you go… Easy!

Then came the “Wouldn’t it be cool of you could post an image of the artist that was playing?” challenge! I remember it well… That added quite a bit more complication to how it all worked. Challenge accepted!

“How about if you could tag the artist that was being played? That would be cool!” was the next one. Again, all possible, the data is out there.

By this time a few radio stations have found out about the service and are actually paying to use the system. Time to start advertising this! Along came www.twitterautopost.co.uk. The website ( a .co.uk because they are cheaper to purchase) advertised the service to see if there was any real interest in the service. Turns out, YES! there was an interest, quite a big one!

The issue now is that people are (obviously) wanting to change details and configuration (the message to be posted, the frequency, whether to post images or not, etc…). Cue a MAJOR rethink of how all this is going to work. Time to design a Control Panel!

So as I had coded and written most of this myself, I decided to go ahead and see if I would write up and code a customer control panel myself… Yes as it turns out! This was a very big change to how the whole system worked. There were already a number of stations using the service, so this all had to be rolled out without causing any disruption to the existing users so along cam the painful moving of each account form the ‘manual’ system to the new ‘2.0’ system whereby users could log into their own account and make the changes themselves in realtime.

Stay tuned for the next update to bring us right up to date with where the project is now!

Automatically post ‘Now Playing’ song to your radio station Twitter account

Fancy automatically posting what is currently playing on your radio station directly to Twitter as often as you want?

I’ve come up with a way to make your ‘Now Playing’ song to automatically be posted to your Twitter account with no intervention on your part at all. Get the song currently playing sent to Twitter every 5 minutes or every 5 days, it’s up to you!

 

A new addition to this project is that my script can now also add the official Twitter account/handle to each tweet and also an image of the artist/group.

How does it work?

Well, first we need to create an App in Twitter for your account, then with these details I create a script that will run on a server that gets called every ‘x’ minutes and updates your Twitter account automatically with the Artist name and song title plus a message or your choice.

Here are a couple of screenshots of it in action
twitter auto post

What do I need to make it work for you?

– Either access to your Twitter account OR you create an App and send me the required details (Token details from the App)
– Access to your ‘Now Playing’ details, your playout system will normally output this.
– How often you want the song details sent to your Twitter account and the message you want to include.

That’s it!
I just need those bits to make it all work, the script I have will do all the rest! If you don’t know how to get them, let me know and I’ll assist.

As this script relies on server usage on an ongoing basis, there is a very small charge (£2.95/month) to help me pay for hosting the script and bandwidth used to process the script.

Just click the Paypal icon below and you’ll get the details back on how to get the info I need, failing that, I’ll help you sort it all out until it’s working!