POSTER

This program is a Twitter poster. This will retrieve all information from a rss feed that you configure and then will post at your twitter timeline as long time you set.

The Code

In the code have 2 big processes:

1. The process that retrieve and store in a simple SQLite3 database the data from rss feed

2. The process that read from database a random data and post it in the Twitter

This two processes run as threads in the system, so we can determine different times do be the actions, precisely becouse read the feed of the site and post the links on the twitter not be performed at the same time.

Configuration

This program need to be configured in the "config.py" file. This is the options:

FEED_URL	The feed URL
DBFILE	The name of the database file
TABLENAME	The name of the table in the database
BEGIN_TWITTER_TEXT	A text that will be posted at BEGIN of twitt
FIXED_TWITTER_TEXT	A text that will be posted at END of twitt
PAUSE_TIME_FEED_READER	Time of the database updater will run, in seconds
PAUSE_TIME_TWITTER	Time of the twitter posts will be posted, in seconds
TAG_MAX_LENGTH	Max size of tag term to post it, tags given from RSS
TAGS_QTD	Max number of tags to post in twitt
MIN_POST_REPETITION	Minimal number of posts to permit repeat posts
Twitter app configuration (http://apps.twitter.com)
t_token	Access token
t_token_key	Access Token Secret
t_con_secret	Consumer Key
t_con_secret_key	Consumer Secret

TODO

• Read rss for more than 1 site
• Post to other social networks

Run information

Libs:

• feedparser - https://feedparser.readthedocs.org
• dataset - https://dataset.readthedocs.org
• twitter - https://pypi.python.org/pypi/twitter
• multiprocessing - https://pymotw.com/2/multiprocessing/

Python version: 3.4.3

You can run this script with only one of the partes running:

$ python poster.py [all|update|post]

License

This code is licensed under the GPLv3, like you can read in the license.txt or in this url: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0-standalone.html

Author

Sérgio Berlotto Jr sergio.berlotto@gmail.com