singhkshitij / twitterimgbot

Ever wanted to randomly tweet pictures from a folder? No? Well, maybe you do now.

MyTrashCode Twitter bot

Twitter handle : @mytrashcode

What it does ?

It automatically posts random images with some hashtags on twitter to build social media presence for my blog Mytrashcode

You can find the setup instruction on the original repo here if you also want to build one.

From where do i get image ?

I scrap them in one shot from popular programming meme subreddits and uploaded to an static folder on a linux instance running all time.

Do i pay for linux instance ?

No. I run a lifetime free linux instance on GCP. It does the job for me.

Does the bot automatically post ?

No. I have scheduled a cron job to trigger randomly 3 times a day.

0 0,8,16 * * * sleep $(( RANDOM \% 14400 )); /usr/bin/python3 /home/kshitij.singh/twitterImgBot/twitterbot.py --tweet

It runs the python script and does the job.

Where do i store these images ?

In folder twitterImgBot/images/reddit_sub_ProgrammerHumor/

How do i scrap reddit images ?

This is a one time job, which i achieved with tool called ripme.

SSH to box and run

java -jar ripme.jar --url https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/top/?t=year --ripsdirectory ./twitterImgBot/images/

Cleanup steps :

Remove videos or other non image files that could have been scraped also by running these commands :

ls | wc -l
find . -type f ! \( -name '*.jpg' -o -name "*.png" \) -delete
ls | wc -l