To post Nowplaying tweets from RadioBOSS, please do the following:
1. Create Twitter application
Apply for a Twitter developer account
https://developer.twitter.com/en/apply-for-access and create a new Twitter app. Get the API Key, API Secret, Access token and Access token secret values for the newly created app - you will need those at the next step.
2. Configure RadioBOSS to update Twitter statuses.
Open RadioBOSS, in the top menu click
Settings->
Options, select the
Reports section.
Check the
Enable notifications checkbox.
Click the
+ button to add a new notification.
Click the
Configuration Wizard button. Select
Twitter and click
Next. Input Twitter app access data: API Key, API Secret, Token, Token Secret.
The
Tweet Text typically consists of custom text along with track information variables:
http://manual.djsoft.net/radioboss/en/title-format-variables.htm
Example tweet text
After everything is configured, a tweet will be posted each time a song is played in RadioBOSS.
Notice for RadioBOSS versions 5.6 and older, where configuration wizard is not available. In the URL/email field enter the following,
change all of the YOUR_* values respectively with Twitter app keys
Code:
https://user.djsoft.net/twitter/status.php?apikey=YOUR_API_KEY&apisecret=YOUR_API_SECRET&token=YOUR_API_TOKEN&tokensecret=YOUR_API_TOKEN_SECRET&status=%casttitle
If you want to host the
status.php script on your web site, please download the attached radioboss_twitter.zip file.
