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tweet_scheduler

A webapp that allows you to upload tweets and schedule them.

I know you can do this in tweetdeck, but i don't like tweetdeck that much.. Besides i just thought it'd be a fun project.

features

  • A website on which you can upload tweets to be automatically send out at time of your choosing.
  • The ability to attach a gif or an image(s) to your tweet.
  • A webpage where you can view your scheduled tweets and see when they will be sent out. On this page you can also delete any scheduled tweets.
  • Both client and serverside validation.
  • Logging for both the server and the posting script.

Installation

First make sure that you that you have installed the following: python 3 or higher, virtualenv, npm and make sure that you are on a linux machine, that has cron available.

Also make sure that you have a set of twitter api keys. if you don't have them, get them here.

Then open up a terminal, in the directory in which you want to install the program and paste the following commands.

git clone https://github.com/johnvanderholt/tweet_scheduler.git tweet_scheduler
cd tweet_scheduler/
npm install
cd posting_script
mkdir venv
virtualenv ./venv/ --python=python3.5
./venv/bin/pip3 install -r reqs.txt

Then create a file called twitter_api_key in the posting_script directory, and paste in you twitter api keys, each on a seperate line, in the following order.

  1. consumer key
  2. consumer secret
  3. access token
  4. access token_secret

If you don't have api keys you can get them here.

Usage

Once you have successfully completed the installation, open up a terminal window in the project directory, and type npm start.

Then open your browser and go to http://localhost:3000/ to access the website.

Features you could contribute.

I'm done with this project. but if you want to you could still help improve it.

  • It's not crossplatform. it uses cron for scheduling so you'd have to run it on a linux server. So you could add a crossplatform scheduler.
  • Improving the interface. I just dropped in a basic template, so there is quite a lot of room for impovement.
  • A login system that identifies specific users and safely stores their api keys. It currently only supports 1 user, and he/she has to manually paste their api keys into a file.

Hope you enjoy :).

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