This bot picks a random 78 record from the Great 78 Project, downloads the image and audio, and renders together a 140-second clip suitable for posting to Twitter. Then it uploads that video with a link to the tune. Follow it at @78_sampler.
The internetarchive module required by this script also provides a command line interface that can be used to generate the georgeblood.txt file. The George Blood collection at the Internet Archive is continually being expanded, so I run the following command on occasion:
ia search collection:georgeblood --itemlist > georgeblood.txt
Note that the collection currently contains over 300,000 items, so it is normal for that command to take some time to run.
The collection contains some items I never want the bot to tweet; I maintain a file called exclude.txt with a series of strings that should not appear. I apply the filter in line with the request with a simple grep:
ia search collection:georgeblood --itemlist | grep -iv -f exclude.txt > georgeblood.txt