CutePetsAustin @cutepetsaustin

A twitter bot that posts a random adoptable pet from PetHarbor.com shelter(s).

To make it work with your city, simply change the shelters in credentials.py. You can find your shelter ID by inspecting a URL on PetHarbor.com, e.g. Austin = ASTN, and Denver = DNVR.

Forked from codeforamerica/CutePetsDenver.

Tweeting at @cutepetsaustin.

Quickstart

1. Configure credentials.py
2. Install the dependencies pip install -r requirements.txt
3. Tweet a random adoptable pet python meow.py

Setup

Requirements

• python 2.7
• pip - https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/
• virtualenv - http://virtualenv.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

Installation

• Clone the repo git clone git@github.com:open-austin/CutePetsAustin.git
• Configure credentials.py with your PetHarbor.com Shelter ID(s), Twitter API Key and Access Token:

shelters = ['ASTN', 'DNVR']  # PetHarbor.com shelter IDs
twitter_api_key = 'XXXXX'
twitter_api_secret = 'XXXXX'
twitter_access_token = 'XXXXX'
twitter_access_token_secret = 'XXXXX'

• Optionally, create and activate a virtual environment
• Install the python dependencies with pip install -r requirements.txt
• Tweet a random adoptable pet with python meow.py
• Optionally, schedule a cron job to execute meow.py every few hours

Twitter

1. Create a new Twitter app.
2. On the API key tab for the Twitter app, modify permissions so the app can Read and Write. Create an access token. On the API Key tab in Twitter for the app, click Create my access token. Note: It's important to change permissions to Read/Write before generating the access token. The access token is keyed for the specific access level and will not be updated when changing permissions.
3. Copy the API Key and Access Token into credentials.py

License

The MIT License (MIT)