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From RSS to sharing on social networks - phantomjs?

2 points by agilord ↗ HN
How would you automate posting the title / description / short url of your blog posts to your Facebook / Twitter / Google+ / ... pages? The sites we are sponsoring or helping with have 10+ RSS feeds and 30+ possible social network page destinations.

Does someone have a good collection of PhantomJs scripts?

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AznHisoka
I use CasperJS - it's a wrapper with syntactic sugar around PhantomJS. Posting to social networks is almost trivial (couple of lines). Just run it with your cookies file, and it'll login automatically.
agilord
Thanks for the lead!

I've found bing login for casperjs, but otherwise most example out there assume anonymous access. I wouldn't use my cookie files, especially because it limits automation.

It is so stunning that nobody tried to solve this before / nobody published the scripts.