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To best explain the process to you, I will briefly show you the payload that you can use to start the process:

{ 
  "input": { 
    "thread": [ 
      "That's a twitter thread made with flethy.", 
      "Setup in less than 5 minutes.", 
      "Create a thread with a single command.", 
      "Don't trust any 3rd party service." 
    ] 
  } 
}

The process essentially does the following:

1. Create a tweet with the first element from the array. Here: That's a twitter thread made with flethy.
2. Write a new variable called counter and initialise it with the value 1. This gives us a condition for the loop we are going to run through.
3. If the array contains more than one element go to the next node reply.
4. Create a tweet as a reply to the last tweet and increment the counter.
5. If the counter is less than the number of elements, execute the node reply again, otherwise we are done.

That's a twitter thread made with flethy.
counter
1
reply
reply

Actually quite simple! You can now easily start this flow with the typescript package @flethy/flow:

import { FlowEngine } from "@flethy/flow"; 
const flow = {}; // flow from above 
const input = { 
  input: {
    thread: [] 
  }
}; // input from above 

async function main() { 
  const engine = new FlowEngine({ 
    env: { 
      env: {}, 
      secrets: { 
        CONSUMER_KEY: process.env.CONSUMER_KEY, 
        CONSUMER_SECRET: process.env.CONSUMER_SECRET, 
        ACCESS_TOKEN: process.env.ACCESS_TOKEN, 
        ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET: process.env.ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET, 
      }, 
    }, 
    flow, 
    input, 
  }); 
  await engine.start(); 
} 
main()

That’s all you need to create a Twitter thread locally in a Typescript project. Of course, it is more comfortable in the cloud. You don’t have to set up anything, set any environment variables or write any code. The following video shows you how it works: Play And at the end you’ll receive your tweet :) I’ve implemented flethy so you don’t have to worry about doing repetitive tasks anymore. If you like the project, give it a star on Github. Feel free to ask questions and give feedback! I’m looking forward to it! And if you want to try out flethy Cloud: https://flethy.com/signup - it’s free!