dodgees / iherbie

Grabs husker tweets and posts them on Reddit.

iHerbie

iHerbie is a simple bot that pulls relevent tweets from several Twitter accounts and posts the most popular tweet to the Huskers subreddit using the PRAW to interact with Reddit API. iHerbie pulls recent tweets from local newspaper accounts focused on the Nebraska Cornhuskers. It selects the most popular tweet based on favorites and retweets. Once selected, the tweet text is cleaned and the link to the actual content is found. After a post is made to r/Huskers, an email is sent confirming a successful post and the tweet is stored in a sqlite database. If the tweet has already been posted, it is discarded and a failure email is sent.

iherbie's Issues

Refactor methods

Change code for inserting tweets, checking posted tweets, getting twitter api object to use methods. Include main method that uses these methods.

Hide tokens with config file

Create a gitIgnored file to hide api/developer keys for Twitter and login information for Reddit.

Get full link

Users would like to see links to the original article instead of a link to the tweet.

Add logic to choose which tweets to post

This includes selection criteria, such as minimum favorite and retweet count, date posted, etc.

Insert tweets into database

This step should take information from the tweet and insert it into the iHerbie database. Stored information will include twitter user, tweet text, favorite count, retweet count, created tsp and saved tsp.

Use hashtags instead of only Husker twitter accounts

Could grab tweets based on #huskers or #GBR to get more variety.

Oauth for PRAW

Look into using Oauth for PRAW. Implement if it can be done effectively.

Setup scheduled task to run iHerbie

Encoding tweet text

Tweets from OWHbigred introduced an encoding issue with the tweet text.

Create unit test for tweet text cleanup function

Use previous postings as test cases. Use unittest.

Send email with posted tweet

Should include the details of the info that was posted to Reddit.

Add additional twitter users to potential posts

Still need to identify which users.

Logging

Add logging to track iHerbie, instead of printing.

Create table for posted tweets

Records which tweets are successfully posted. Will also be used to ensure no tweets are reposted.

Post tweet

Check if tweet has already been posted, post tweet to Reddit and add posted tweet to the database.

Clean up retweets

Create method to remove RT @*:. Look for additional ways to do tweet text cleanup.

Posts ending in :

Remove : if it appears at the end of a sentence.