Save Healthcare

1. Create a Twitter App - apps.twitter.com
2. Add your credentials to creds_DEMO.json, save the file, then rename it creds.json - DON'T COMMIT YOUR CREDENTIALS THEY ALLOW ACCESS TO YOUR TWITTER ACCOUNT
3. Edit the base tweets in save_healthcare.py and add more if you want.
4. Start sending tweets: python save_healthcare.py

On Mac you can schedule a tweet to Republican senators every two minutes like this:

If you're a Developer on a mac already this should probably work:

git clone https://github.com/fernando-mc/save-healthcare.git

brew install watch && watch -n120 "python save_healthcare.py"

Otherwise here's a longer version for less technical folks:

First - Search your Mac Programs Next - Open the Terminal application Last - Copy and paste in this command. The detailed command is explained below for the reasonably suspicous:

cd ~/Desktop && \
xcode-select --install && \
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)" && \
brew install python && pip install virtualenv && \
virtualenv env && source env/bin/activate \
&& pip install Twython && brew install git && \
git clone https://github.com/fernando-mc/save-healthcare.git && \
open -a TextEdit ./creds.json && open https://apps.twitter.com/

EXPLAINATION OF THE COMMANDS:

• && chains things together to run them one after another
• cd ~/Desktop Changes the referenced directory to your desktop
• xcode-select --install Installs needed developer tools && ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)" Installs a tool called Homebrew which let's us - more easily get all our dependencies.
• brew install python Gets the python programming language pip install virtualenv Gets the virtualenv package for installing python - dependencies virtualenv env && source env/bin/activate Creates and activates a - virtual environment to install Python dependencies.
• pip install Twython A dependency for dealing with the Twitter API brew install git A dependency for copying some code to run the save - healthcare script git clone https://github.com/fernando-mc/save-healthcare.git Us actually - getting the code we're running open -a TextEdit ./creds.json && open https://apps.twitter.com/ Opens the Twitter apps homepage to create an app and the credentials file you'll - need to update to run the script