screensbot

A CLI for screenshotting every second of a series of MKV videos and tweeting them over a period of weeks.

Requirements

• Postgres 9.6+
• Ruby 2.5+
• ffmpeg

Configuration

Copy database.yml.example to database.yml and fill it out with your database credentials. Then copy twitter.yml.example to twitter.yml and fill it out with your Twitter API keys.

Usage

$ bin/screensbot
Commands:
  screensbot eta              # Display the estimated time of completion for this batch
  screensbot finalize         # Gather metrics on all tweets in the database
  screensbot generate [path]  # Generate screenshots for a given path
  screensbot help [COMMAND]   # Describe available commands or one specific command
  screensbot populate         # Populate the database schema with screenshots
  screensbot tweet            # Post the next screenshot
  screensbot update-metrics   # Update the metrics of as many posts as possible

Happy path

1. bundle install
2. Set up the config files.
3. SCREENSBOT_ENV=production rake db:create db:migrate
4. Gather your .mkv files.
5. Run generate, providing the folder as input.
6. Run populate, providing the screenshots folder as input.
7. Run tweet on a cron job.
8. Run update-metrics as frequently as desired, but less than tweet.
9. When it's all said and done, run finalize to run a final metrics pass.

Development

Please run rubocop before sending any pull requests.