Mah!Cade:Twitter

Twitter

Twitter support through the tweepy library was added in commit 140. This publish the game launched on your twitter feed once you are authorised with write access using the OAuth protocol.

Setup

'Create a new application' on https://dev.twitter.com/apps Enter the required values (anything you like) marked with an asterix Accept the license agreement Enter the captcha Press 'Create your twitter application'

Open the settings tab Under Application Access select Read & Write Press 'Update this Twitter applications settings

Open the details tab Press 'Create my access token' Once generated, confirm your access level is 'Read and Write'

Open wahcade.ini Add these new options

### Twitter OAuth Options ###
consumer_key
consumer_secret
access_key
access_secret
custom_tags

From your new twitter application add the keys as per below Consumer Key => consumer_key Consumer Secret => consumer_secret Access Token => access_key Access Token Secret => access_secret

This will give you authorization to write to your twitter timeline at Mah!Cade run time.

Additionally you may add custom text to the 'custom_tags' option in wahcade.ini. This text will be appended to the published line provided the line is not over 140 characters once combined.