I upset my girlfriend on a solemn Sunday during the first 2020 lockdown. Being halfway around the world from her, I needed an innovative way to cheer her up. My solution was to create a bot which scraped pictures of dogs from Twitter and send her one every hour.
Seeing as this is a very informal use case, please forgive the lack of modularity. To learn how to code this step-by-step, see my Medium Article.
NOTE: To use this bot, you will need a Twitter Developer account and a Twilio account.
Create and activate a virtual environment using
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
Set environment variables in a .env file and run source .env
Create your little message in main.py.
In a terminal:
python get_content.py
python main.py
An extra tip, if you're using a mac, open a separate terminal and use the command caffeinate to prevent it from going into restmode and stopping the project running