gae-tumblr-auto-reblog

About

[GAE/Python] Tumblr periodic reblog bot. Reblogging from past posts at random and add to queue if the queue has decreased. My tumblr blog(https://oninoheizo.tumblr.com) is managed by this program.

Requirements

• Google Cloud SDK for Python
• Tumblr
• pytumblr
• flask

pip install

$ cd /your/project
$ pip install -t lib flask pytumblr python-dateutil pytz requests-toolbelt

OAUTH secret keys

$ cp secret.yaml.sample secret.yaml

secret.yaml

env_variables:
  BLOG_NAME: "YOUR BLOG NAME"
  CONSUMER_KEY: "YOUR CONSUMER KEY"
  CONSUMER_SECRET: "YOUR CONSUMER SECRET"
  OAUTH_TOKEN: "YOUR OAUTH TOKEN"
  OAUTH_SECRET: "YOUR OAUTH SECRET"

Add your blog name, consumer_key, consumer_secret, oauth_token and oauth_secret.
https://www.tumblr.com/oauth/apps

Configuration

Google App Engine

• Create a project.

Tumblr

• Enable automatically publish a queued post.
  (e.g. 5 times a day between 12 am and 12 am)

settings.py

• MIN_QUEUE: Run reblog task if the number of queues is less than MIN_QUEUE.
• ADD_QUEUE: Number of posts in a single reblog task.
• DAYS_BEFORE: Reblog posts are older than DAYS_BEFORE days from now.
• MIN_NOTE: Reblog posts have more than MIN_NOTE notes.

cron.yaml

cron:
- description: "queue check"
  url: /deffer
  schedule: every 3 hours

(e.g. check the queue every 3 hours.)

Deploy

$ gcloud app deploy
$ gcloud app deploy cron.yaml
$ gcloud app deploy queue.yaml

Issues

Need a lot of past posts.

Reblog forever!