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Delano Petrilli
Delano Petrilli

Reputation: 55

Python Tweepy Bot that randomly tweets image and a corresponding text caption from a json file

I am trying to create a Twitter bot that tweets a random caption and corresponding image from a json file every 30 minutes. So far I have:

import tweepy
from time import sleep
import random

import json
with open('test.json', 'r') as f:
    info = json.load(f)

print('Twitter Bot')

CONSUMER_KEY = 'XXXXXX'
CONSUMER_SECRET = 'XXXXXX'
ACCESS_KEY = 'XXXXXX'
ACCESS_SECRET = 'XXXXXX'

auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET)
auth.set_access_token(ACCESS_KEY, ACCESS_SECRET)
api = tweepy.API(auth)


randomChoice = random.randrange(len(info))
print (info[randomChoice])
api.update_status(status=info[randomChoice])

Json File:

    [
  {
    "text": "hi",
    "image": "/image1.jpg"
  },
  {
    "text": "hello",
    "image": "/image2.jpg"
  }
]

But the tweet only shows: {'text': 'hello', 'image': '/image2.jpg'}. How can I make it so that only the image and text are shown? Also, how do I set it so that this happens every 30 minutes? I am new to programming and would appreciate any help that is provided!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 392

Answers (1)

mechanical_meat
mechanical_meat

Reputation: 169304

You need something like:

api.update_with_media(info[randomChoice]['image'], 
                      status=info[randomChoice]['text'])

However, you need to be sure either:

  1. the image files are in the current working directory, or
  2. you supply the full path to the image files.

To handle running this every 30 minutes, you can use the schedule module:

import schedule
import time

def job():
    print("I'm working...")
    # your tweepy code here 

schedule.every(30).minutes.do(job)

while True:
    schedule.run_pending()
    time.sleep(1)

Upvotes: 2

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