tweetsender

Get tweets of particular users into your gmail inbox without using twitter app.

So you can follow people you admire and read inspiring ideas without being annoyed with push notifications.

Using the power of email, you can read tweets whenever you want and have all the tweets history in your inbox.

Getting started

• Clone or download the repo using the green button above
• Create an application in twitter with the help of their guide: https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/basics/authentication/guides/access-tokens
• Place tweetsender.py along with userconf.json, smtpconf.json and keyconf.json in the same folder, say in ~/tweetsender
• Edit keyconf.json and replace values with your actual keys retrieved in step 2
• Edit smtpconf.json and replace values with your actual login and pass from your gmail account
• Edit userconf.json and replace or add twitter users you wish to follow. You should replace id value by "" (empty value) at first, then python script will manage it by itself
• Install dependencies if it is necessary https://github.com/bear/python-twitter

pip install python-twitter

• Create an executable python3 script (say, tsservice.py as follows:

# import the class
from tweetsender import TwSender
# create an instance, load configurations, collect tweets
tws = TwSender()
# send tweets and update userconf.json
tws.send(toaddr_list = ['some@email.com', 'another@email.com'])
# clean up after yourself
tws.cleanup()

and save it in the same directory (~/tweetsender).

• Check if script works (open your terminal and type):

python3 ~/tweetsender/tsservice.py

• Schedule the script via crontab (check every day in my case):
  • Open your terminal and type:

  crontab -e

  • Add the following line (you can change the freequency as you like it):

  0 6 * * * python3 /path/to/your/home/tweetsender/tsservice.py

  This will run the script every day at 6:00 am