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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>", ""))