NFL Twitter Bot

Project Description

This project twitter bot (https://twitter.com/GoogleNfl) scrapes Google News for articles related to "NFL" in the last 12 hours. Then selects a random article from that time period to create and send tweet from a user specified Twitter account.

Technologies used

• Tweepy enables communication with the Twitter API to create and send tweets
• GoogleNews scrape and read articles from the Google News feature
• random tell program to pick a random article from Google News
• time to signal how long the script should "sleep" before running again

How to Install and Run

Most importantly, any user will need to create a Twitter Developer account (https://developer.twitter.com/en/support/twitter-api/developer-account). From there, you can retrieve personal access tokens to link your twitter account. Now just open your favorite editor and install/import the packages listed above.

Customizable options:

• GoogleNews(period='x') user can change which time period to scrape Google News
• gn.get_news('x') change which category of articles to scrape
• element_info = { change which items to actually pull from the scraped article
• tweet_text format how the tweet looks and what is included
• An infinite while loop is used to continously run the script. time.sleep() can be adjusted to change the interval on how long to wait until running the script again