jacobdawson98 / screenshot_twitterbot

Tweets random screenshots every hour.

Screenshot Twitterbot

Tweets random screenshots every hour. Automated using cron.

Set up

• Requires python3
• Install required dependencies using pip3 install -r requirements/base.txt
  • For development install required dependencies using pip3 install -r requirements/dev.txt
• Screenshots are kept in public/screens. When a screenshot is tweeted it is moved to public/screens/used.
• twitterbot.py requires keys and secrets from the file .env kept in the root project directory.

Default .env

API_KEY=<api key>
API_SECRET=<api secret>
OAUTH_TOKEN=<oauth token>
OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET=<oauth token secret>

Optional .env vars

PASTEBIN_KEY=<pastebin dev key>
PASTEBIN_USER_KEY=<pastebin user key>
USED_SCREENS_FILE=<path of used screens file relative to root project dir>

Cron Configuration

0 * * * * /usr/bin/python3 <path-to-projects-dir>/screenshot_twitterbot/twitterbot.py

Image Naming

• Image names are formatted as {season}_{episode}_{frame}

screenshot_twitterbot's Issues

Update list of used images when twitterbot.py is called

Make sync_public_dir a command line tool

Be able to add flags when running sync_public_dir.py to signify creating used_screens.txt, updating, or sync the public/screens dir according to the current used_screens.txt

Feature: When used_screens.txt is updated, push to google drive or samba