Scheduled Social Media Poster

A simple web app to schedule your Social Media Posts either through a web interface or an API. Currently supports Facebook and Twitter.

Install

• Clone the git repo

  git clone https://github.com/theju/smp
  cd smp
  

• Install the dependencies listed in the requirements.txt

  pip install -r requirements.txt
  

• Create the db schema. Uses sqlite3 by default. Create a local.py file under the smp/smp directory to change it.

  python manage.py migrate
  

• Run the dev server.

  python manage.py runserver
  

• Create an admin user

  python manage.py createsuperuser
  

• Login to the admin page at http://localhost:8000/admin/ and enter the social application credentials at http://localhost:8000/admin/socialaccount/socialapp/ (FB app instructions and Twitter app instructions).
• Setup a crontab script that runs the following command every minute

  python manage.py autopost
  

Advanced

Schedule posts through API

• Fetch the API Key from the web interface for the user and perform a HTTP Basic Authenticated POST request with the username as your API Key and blank password at http://localhost:8000/api/post/add/ to schedule posts.

  CURL Example

  curl -X POST -u <api_key> -d "status=Hello+World&service=facebook&scheduled_datetime=2016-01-01T00:01:00Z" http://localhost:8000/api/post/add/
  

  Requests Example

  import requests
  import datetime
  
  requests.post("http://localhost:8000/api/post/add/", data={
      "status": "Hello World",
      "service": "facebook",
      "scheduled_datetime": datetime.datetime(2016, 01, 01, 00, 01, 00).strftime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ"),
      "scheduled_tz": "UTC"
  }, auth=("<api_key>", ""))