wp-to-twitter.ps1

function Get-CustomDate
{
    param(
        [Parameter(Mandatory = $true)]
        [string]$DateString,
        [string]$DateFormat = 'ddd MMM d HH:mm:ss yyyy',
        [cultureinfo]$Culture = $(Get-UICulture)
    )

    # replace double space by a single one
    $DateString = $DateString -replace '\s+', ' '

    [Datetime]::ParseExact($DateString, $DateFormat, $Culture)
}

Function Get-ShortURL
{
    [cmdletbinding()]
    Param(
            [Parameter(Mandatory=$True, ValueFromPipeline = $true)][string] $URL
    )

    Write-Verbose "Creating Short URL for $URL"

    Invoke-RestMethod -Uri "https://www.googleapis.com/urlshortener/v1/url?key=YOUR API KEY" `
                      -Body $(''| Select-object @{n='longUrl';e={$URL}}|convertto-json) `
                      -ContentType 'application/json' `
                      -Method Post | ForEach-Object ID
}

Function Get-RSSFeed
{
    [cmdletbinding()]
    param(
            [Parameter(Mandatory=$true)] [uri] $URL
    )

    Write-Host "Fetching RSS Feeds: $URL" -ForegroundColor Green

    $article = @()
    $page_num=1
    $flag=$true
    While($true -and $flag){
        try{
            $feed_url = ([xml](Invoke-WebRequest "$URL/feed")).rss.channel.link.where({$_.rel -eq 'self'}).href
            if(([uri]$feed_url).localpath -like "*feed.xml"){
                $xml = [xml] ((Invoke-WebRequest "$feed_url").content)
                $flag= $false
            }
            else{
                Write-Host " [+] $feed_url/?paged=$page_num" -ForegroundColor Green
                $xml = [xml] ((Invoke-WebRequest "$feed_url/?paged=$page_num").content)

                if($xml){
                    Foreach ($item in $xml.rss.channel.item)
                    {
                        $date = Get-CustomDate -DateString $($item.pubDate -replace " \+0000", "").trim() -DateFormat 'ddd, d MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss'
                        try{
                            $article += [PSCustomObject] @{
                                date         = $date
                                author       = $item.creator.'#cdata-section'
                                title        = $item.title
                                num_comments = ($item.comments)[1]
                                link         = (Get-ShortURL $item.link)
                                category     = $item.category.'#cdata-section'#.where({$_ -ne 'Uncategorized'})
                                description  = $item.description.'#cdata-section'
                                commentsURL  = ($item.comments)[0]
                            }
                        }
                        catch{
                            $_.exception.message
                        }
                    }
                }
            }

        }catch{
            break
        }

        $page_num=$page_num+1
    }

    return $article
}

import-module PoshTwit

Get-process pwsh | Where-Object MainWindowTitle -eq 'wp-to-twitter' | Stop-Process -Force

$Host.UI.RawUI.WindowTitle = 'wp-to-twitter'
$Articles = Get-RSSFeed -URL 'RidiCurious.com'
$HashtagKeywords = "Powershell","Python","AWS","Azure"

ForEach($blogpost in ($Articles|Get-Random))
{
    $Title = $blogpost.Title
    $words= Foreach($Word in $Title.Split(" ")) {
        if($Word -in $HashtagKeywords) {
            "#$word"
        }
        else {
            $word
        }
    }

    $TweetContent = $($words -join ' ')+"`n$($Blogpost.link)"

    If($TweetContent.length -le 140)
    {
        $Tweet = @{
                ConsumerKey = 'XXX';
                ConsumerSecret = 'XXX';
                AccessToken = 'X-XX';
                AccessSecret = 'XXXX';
                Tweet = $TweetContent;
        }


        Publish-Tweet @Tweet
        Write-Verbose "Done."
    }

    $hours = (10..12 | Get-Random)
    Write-host "Sleeping for $hours hours until next Tweet." -ForegroundColor Magenta
    Start-Sleep -Seconds (60*60*$hours) -Verbose
}