Use Netlify Functions and the Twitter API v2 as a CMS for Your Gatsby Blog

I would just make a request to Twitter for the profile on build for the two sites. Do you expect to update your profile more frequently than your two sites? ISTM, you can just trigger manual builds when you do update your profile, instead of using a function, which is going to constantly be looking up and returning the same information.

Comments so far are negative, but not every solution needs to scale. I recently made a Netlify site where the CMS is just writing JSON out to GitHub. Yes, if GitHub goes down, it will break, but who cares? My site expects to only get a couple of weeks of editing every few years, so I don’t need something with more availability than that.

Not sure if using 3rd party services for a CMS is a good idea. What happens if this API or Netlify goes down?<p>Doesn&#x27;t seem reliable.

In this post I&#x27;m going to explain how you can use Netlify Functions to access your Twitter profile data using the Twitter v2 API and display it on your Gatsby blog.

How about “no”.

Seems like a great solution to streamline your personal online presence. If you don’t have a Twitter you could probably do the same thing with GitHub or Instagram

For my blog , i am using Github as CMS using the github API. It simply works.