9gag-bot

Original goal

We wanted to create a piece of code that could run once a day and post a pic on 9gag of the most well-know person which had their death anniversary.

This would be created in the timeframe of one evening and would later be hosted somewhere in the Cloud.

Deviation

As we realized that automatic 9gag posting was pretty hard (because of lack of an official API, use of Captchas, and Cloudflare DDOS protection on login), we switched to posting it on Twitter: see @RipBot__.

This is also not cloud-ready yet, we may update this later.

Actual functionality

This project consists in 3 parts, that are stored in their corresponding python files and run one after the other in main.py:

• wiki_search.py: parse Wikipedia content for the page of a given date and return the person who died on this day along with meta-infos (like, date of birth, link to picture)
• make_meme.py: use the meta-info and the MemePy library to add text onto the image
• upload_twitter.py: tweet the generated image along with a standard text.

Other scripts:

• upload.py (broken): login to 9gag and upload a pic using a selenium-controlled browser; this is implemented up to the point where you have to choose categories
• login_to_twitter: refresh the tokens that are being used by upload_twitter.py

How to use

Requirements

To run this app, you need:

• Python 3.6+
• Twitter API-key details under resources/twitter_credentials.yml

To use the unfinished 9gag upload feature, you need:

• 9gag credentials as username:password under resources/credentials.txt

Make sure you have all the needed dependencies by running pip install -r requirements.txt

Running the code

Simply change the date in main.py to the desired day and run python main.py