A Twitter bot that tracks when it's Groundhog Day.
Every day, the bot counts how many days remain for the next Groundhog Day and tracks the current season. The bot then tweets the remaining time and a groundhog picture specific for the season. But if it's Groundhog Day, it announces the date and posts a gif of Punxsutawney Phil.
This project was built using the Tweepy module to interact with the Twitter API.
The initial idea was to use features from the Jaguar Bot Project, written in NodeJS. That idea resulted in this example, used as reference to write the countdown logic in Python. As this project is very simple, not much would be used from the Jaguar Bot; so it was helpful to learn a new module.