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Refactor fetch-x-feed workflow for error handling #73

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55 changes: 43 additions & 12 deletions .github/workflows/fetch-x-feed.yml
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Expand Up @@ -26,36 +26,67 @@ jobs:
env:
X_BEARER_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.X_BEARER_TOKEN }}
run: |
set -euo pipefail
set -u

write_empty_feed() {
mkdir -p WebSite/assets
echo '[]' > WebSite/assets/x-feed.json
git config user.name "github-actions[bot]"
git config user.email "github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com"
git add WebSite/assets/x-feed.json
git commit -m "Update x-feed.json (empty due to API error)" || echo "No changes to commit"
git push || echo "git push failed (push may be restricted)"
}

if [ -z "${X_BEARER_TOKEN:-}" ]; then
echo "X_BEARER_TOKEN secret is not set. Exiting (no-op)."
write_empty_feed
Comment on lines 41 to +43
exit 0
fi

USERNAME="${{ github.event.inputs.username }}"
if [ -z "$USERNAME" ]; then USERNAME="pankun2000_"; fi
echo "Using username: $USERNAME"
AUTH_SCHEME="$(printf 'B%s%s' 'ea' 'rer')"
AUTH_HEADER="Authorization: ${AUTH_SCHEME} ${X_BEARER_TOKEN}"
USER_JSON=$(curl -sS -H "$AUTH_HEADER" "https://api.twitter.com/2/users/by/username/$USERNAME")
USER_ID=$(echo "$USER_JSON" | jq -r '.data.id // empty')
if [ -z "$USER_ID" ]; then echo "Could not resolve user id: $USER_JSON"; exit 1; fi
TWEETS_JSON=$(curl -sS -H "$AUTH_HEADER" "https://api.twitter.com/2/users/$USER_ID/tweets?max_results=100&expansions=attachments.media_keys&tweet.fields=created_at,text")
AUTH_HEADER="Authorization: Bearer ${X_BEARER_TOKEN}"

USER_JSON=$(curl --silent --show-error --fail-with-body -H "$AUTH_HEADER" "https://api.twitter.com/2/users/by/username/$USERNAME" || true)
USER_ID=$(echo "$USER_JSON" | jq -r '.data.id // empty' 2>/dev/null || true)
if [ -z "$USER_ID" ]; then
echo "Could not resolve user id for ${USERNAME}. API response:"
echo "$USER_JSON"
echo "Writing empty feed and exiting successfully."
write_empty_feed
exit 0
fi

TWEETS_JSON=$(curl --silent --show-error --fail-with-body -H "$AUTH_HEADER" "https://api.twitter.com/2/users/$USER_ID/tweets?max_results=100&expansions=attachments.media_keys&tweet.fields=created_at,text" || true)
if ! echo "$TWEETS_JSON" | jq -e '.data != null' >/dev/null 2>&1; then
echo "Unable to fetch tweet list for ${USERNAME}; writing empty feed."
echo "$TWEETS_JSON"
write_empty_feed
exit 0
fi

IDS=$(echo "$TWEETS_JSON" | jq -r '.data[]? | select(.attachments != null) | .id' || true)
if [ -z "$IDS" ]; then
IDS=$(echo "$TWEETS_JSON" | jq -r '.data[]? | select(.text | test("pic\\.twitter\\.com")) | .id' || true)
fi

OUTPUT='[]'
for id in $IDS; do
URL="https://x.com/$USERNAME/status/$id"
OEMBED_JSON=$(curl -s "https://publish.twitter.com/oembed?url=$URL&dnt=true")
OEMBED_HTML=$(echo "$OEMBED_JSON" | jq -r '.html // empty')
OUTPUT=$(echo "$OUTPUT" | jq --arg url "$URL" --arg html "$OEMBED_HTML" '. + [ { url: $url, oembed_html: $html } ]')
OEMBED_JSON=$(curl --silent --show-error --max-time 20 "https://publish.twitter.com/oembed?url=$URL&dnt=true" || true)
OEMBED_HTML=$(echo "$OEMBED_JSON" | jq -r '.html // empty' 2>/dev/null || true)
if [ -n "$OEMBED_HTML" ]; then
OUTPUT=$(echo "$OUTPUT" | jq --arg url "$URL" --arg html "$OEMBED_HTML" '. + [ { url: $url, oembed_html: $html } ]')
fi
done
OUTPUT=$(echo "$OUTPUT" | jq '.[0:3]') || OUTPUT='[]'

OUTPUT=$(echo "$OUTPUT" | jq '.[0:3]' 2>/dev/null || echo '[]')
mkdir -p WebSite/assets
echo "$OUTPUT" > WebSite/assets/x-feed.json
git config user.name "github-actions[bot]"
git config user.email "github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com"
git add WebSite/assets/x-feed.json
git commit -m "Update x-feed.json (fetched media tweets)" || echo "No changes to commit"
git push
git push || echo "git push failed (push may be restricted)"