SamvidhanBot

Tweeting the wisdom of the Constitution of India and its makers.

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Curated by Maximusden and Sai Krishna

The debates of the Constituent Assembly, the articles in the constitution & the scholarly commentary on it are very contextualized and cannot be captured by 280 characters.

Requesting citizens to add context wherever necessary and be part of this discussion.

Blogs

1. Scientific Temper in India: Article on Scientific temper in India, mourning the loss of Science martyrs.
2. Appointing the umpire: Article on the Supreme Court's judgement on the appointment of the Cheif Election Commissioner. Data and Visualisations can be found at: Link

How to build the bot?

1. Register a Project app on the developers portal. Free version is enough for my app.
2. Get API_KEY, API_SECRET, ACCESS_TOKEN ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET from the developers portal for the app. You'd use them for authentication. Save them in the environment variables.
3. I used these two endpoints for my bot

tweet_url = 'https://api.twitter.com/2/tweets'
media_upload_url = 'https://upload.twitter.com/1.1/media/upload.json'

tweet_url is used to post the tweet. This is a v2 API

media_upload_url is used to upload media (images). This is a v1.1 API.

4. All my tweets information is stored in a google sheets. I used pygsheets to get one tweet and formatted it.

5. Uploaded the media using media_upload_url; retreived media_ids and then used the tweet_url to tweet!

6. To run the bot on every reboot of my Pi (cuz power cuts :/)

    sudo nano /etc/rc.local
    # Add the following before exit 0
    /bin/bash /path/to/your/script.sh
   

   I had created a run_bot.sh shell script which hsa the workflow coded.