I Hate Blue Checkmark

Overview

Update your Twitter profile picture regularly to remove the blue checkmark. This tool uses your current profile picture, so no new image will be uploaded.

Prerequisites

• You must have an active Twitter Developer account and an app registered on developer.twitter.com to obtain the API_KEY and API_SECRET.

Usage

Authenticating Your Twitter Account

Download the binary from the release page, build your own binary file, or run directly with go run main.go. The program will prompt you to enter your API Key and API Secret. You will be redirected to the Twitter OAuth page. Authorize the app, and you will be redirected to a page indicating successful authentication. A twitter_token.json and a credentials.json file will be created.

Updating Your Profile Image

Running Locally

Whenever you run the program again, it will check for the existence of credentials.json and twitter_token.json files.

Running on GitHub Actions

Set the value of credentials.json as a repository secret named CREDENTIALS. Set the value of twitter_token.json as a repository secret named TOKEN.

I'm not really a tech savvy but I want to remove the blue checkmark as well and how do I do it?

1. Sign up for a basic twitter Twitter developer account here. You can ask ChatGPT for the use case by, let's say, exploring Twitter API
2. You will be redirected to the dashboard. On project app, click on the setting button, go to Keys and tokens tab, and click the Regenerate button. Save the value of the API Key and API Key Secret
3. Make sure that you already have a GitHub account and logged in. On the top of the page of this repository, click Fork
4. You will be redirected to the forked repository. Click on Actions tab, and click on I understand my workflows, go ahead and enable them
5. On the left pane, there is an item called Run with disabled text next to it. Click on that and there will be a warning message This scheduled workflow is disabled because scheduled workflows are disabled by default in forks. Click on Enable workflow
6. Download the binary file from the release page with the suitable OS and architecture
7. Double click or run the downloaded binary from the terminal, it will prompt your API Key and API Key Secret that you obtain from step 2
8. Double click or run the downloaded binary from the terminal again. If it went well, it will open up a browser asking your authorization to an app but if it doesn't, check the terminal and you will see an URL that you need to open
9. After you authorized the app with your Twitter account, you will be redirected to a page indicating successful authentication and a twitter_token.json and a credentials.json file will be created.
10. Open both file with a text editor, then On the top of the repository, click on Settings, then click the Secrets and variables drop down, and click on actions
11. Click on New repository secret, fill the Name * with CREDENTIALS, and fill the Secret * with the content of the credentials.json file
12. Repeat the same step with twitter_token.json with the name TOKEN
13. Go back to Actions tab, choose Run on the left pane, then click on Run workflow to test if the authentication token is can be used