Posts from X

The app “Posts from X” brings the latest posts of an account on X to your displays, such as your own or your city’s. It brings no widget, and the Posts app shows the posts.

What the app shows#

This app brings no widget. Its installation unlocks the kind Posts on X under Data sources. The posts are shown by the app Posts, which reads any source of the form Posts. Szenera reads with its own access at X. You connect no account and store no key.

A post appears with its text as the headline, its first image, the name of the account, and the time. A code leads to the post on X. New posts arrive at the refresh interval of the source. Once a day, the source matches everything, so a post deleted on X also disappears from the displays.

Two examples: A town hall shows the latest posts of its account as a List at the citizens’ office. A café puts its own posts in the entrance with the Post template.

Set up the source#

The posts live in a source. You create it once, and after that every Posts widget chooses it from the list.

1. Open the listing of Posts from X and click Book and install. An Owner does this (Install or book an app).
2. Under Data sources, use Create source and choose Posts on X under Posts.
3. Search for the Account on X by its name, with or without @, and choose it from the list. Turn on Include replies if you want them.
4. Check the Name, choose the Refresh, and click Create.
5. Place the Posts widget in a scene and choose your source under Source.

The steps in detail are in Create a data source and show it in a widget. How the posts look, you set in the widget, see Posts.

Settings#

The settings belong to the source, not to the app.

Limits#

• Add-on with a fetch limit: X charges for every post read. Szenera counts the fetches per organization and month, 1,000 at most. Every fetch counts, including Fetch now and the sample. Once the limit is reached, the displays keep the last state until the next month begins.
• Public accounts only: A protected account cannot be found or read.
• Replies only on request: Reposts never appear.
• Images stay with us: Szenera copies the image of a post, so a display never loads anything from X.
• The latest posts only: A source keeps at most 20 posts, and the Posts app shows up to 12 of them.
• No fetches without the app: After uninstalling or ending the booking, the sources stay but fetch nothing.

If something goes wrong#

Related#

• Posts
• Create a data source and show it in a widget
• Install or book an app