How to auto-post to X from your app

curl https://opentweet.io/api/v1/me \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ot_your_key"

// server-side only (Node 18+, native fetch)
const res = await fetch("https://opentweet.io/api/v1/posts", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Authorization": `Bearer ${process.env.OPENTWEET_API_KEY}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    text: "We just shipped v2. Auto-posted from our app.",
    publish_now: true,
  }),
});

const post = await res.json();
console.log(post.id, post.status);

# server-side only (Python 3, requests)
import os, requests

res = requests.post(
    "https://opentweet.io/api/v1/posts",
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['OPENTWEET_API_KEY']}"},
    json={
        "text": "We just shipped v2. Auto-posted from our app.",
        "publish_now": True,
    },
)

post = res.json()
print(post["id"], post["status"])

// publish right now
{ "text": "Live now.", "publish_now": true }

// or schedule for later (ISO 8601, UTC)
{ "text": "Going live at 9am.", "scheduled_date": "2026-07-10T09:00:00Z" }

// omit both to save a draft you can review later
{ "text": "Draft for the team to approve." }

// 1. upload the image, get back a URL
const form = new FormData();
form.append("file", imageBlob, "launch.png");

const up = await fetch("https://opentweet.io/api/v1/upload", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { "Authorization": `Bearer ${process.env.OPENTWEET_API_KEY}` },
  body: form,
});
const { url } = await up.json();

// 2. attach it to the post via media_urls
await fetch("https://opentweet.io/api/v1/posts", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Authorization": `Bearer ${process.env.OPENTWEET_API_KEY}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    text: "Screenshot of the new dashboard.",
    media_urls: [url],
    publish_now: true,
  }),
});