bizanime

Business anime GIF tweets

How to get this working?

1. download/clone repo

2. enter the project directory

cd bizanime

3. create a virtual environment

python3 -m venv

4. enter virtual environment

source venv/bin/activate

5. install "requests" and "tweepy"

pip install requests tweepy

6. get Twitter/GIPHY API keys, create an apikeys.txt file in this format:

[apikeys]
giphy_apikey = THE_GIPHY_API_KEY
[twitter]
consumer_key = THE_TWITTER_API_KEY
consumer_secret = THE_TWITTER_API_KEY
access_token = THE_TWITTER_API_KEY
access_token_secret = THE_TWITTER_API_KEY

7. run python app:

python3 app.py

8. edit code (text files, GIPHY search term and parameters) to taste

At this point, you'll have a fully functional python app that can tweet weird text and GIFs. To continue on and move this code to AWS:

9. Make sure your AWS configuration file is in place.

10. install zappa:

pip install zappa

11. init zappa:

zappa init

12. push to production:

zappa deploy production