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/portal/petition/essential/basic-info and create a new Twitter app. Please see this page for details about creating an 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
If you want to host the status.php script on your web site, please download the attached radioboss_twitter.zip file.
1. Create Twitter application
Apply for a Twitter developer account https://developer.twitter.com/en/portal/petition/essential/basic-info and create a new Twitter app. Please see this page for details about creating an 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
Code:
Nowplaying: %casttitle
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.
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