In addition to the essays being shared from Typeshare, people had been sharing links to their social blogs, and I didn’t want those to be tweeted out by ShipperShare. 4) Filter (Check That Something Doesn’t Exist) This gives me information about the essay, for use in later steps. I then parse the page using the hyperlink from Twitter. If so, on to the next step :) 3) Web Parser by Zapier (beta): Parse Webpage I check a hyperlink to see if it contains the two values shown in the photo. When the tweet is one that I want to process, there are a couple of fields that will contain specific values: There are a LOT of irrelevant tweets so I needed a way to make sure the automation only continued when I wanted it to. Here’s how I did it: 1) Trigger the Automation: Tweet in ListĮveryone in the cohort is a member of a particular list in Twitter, so I was able to trigger my Zap when anyone in the list sends a tweet. I wanted an easier way to see all the essays they were creating so I came up with the idea to build a Twitter “Bot” that would tweet out links to everyone’s essay, making it easily scannable. In this particular round, there are quite a few participants.

The idea is that you write every day for 30 days, and publish using a specific platform (Typeshare), which then gets shared to Twitter. I’m a part of a writing cohort called Ship 30 for 30.

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