https://github.com/fitzwilliammuseum/fitz-twitter-art-bot

A R repo which allows a twitter bot to tweet random pictures from the Fitz collection.
https://github.com/fitzwilliammuseum/fitz-twitter-art-bot

cambridge-university rstats twitter-bot

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A R repo which allows a twitter bot to tweet random pictures from the Fitz collection.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/fitzwilliammuseum/fitz-twitter-art-bot
• Owner: FitzwilliamMuseum
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2022-02-10T09:49:21.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2022-08-24T11:12:46.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-03-25T09:49:17.886Z (about 2 months ago)
• Topics: cambridge-university, rstats, twitter-bot
• Language: R
• Homepage: https://twitter.com/fitzArtBot
• Size: 35.2 KB
• Stars: 3
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Fitzwilliam Museum Twitter Bot - random Art work

[![DOI](https://zenodo.org/badge/457719564.svg)](https://zenodo.org/badge/latestdoi/457719564) [![ORCiD](https://img.shields.io/badge/ORCiD-0000--0002--0246--2335-green.svg)](http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0246-2335)

This twitter bot runs from a simple R script. This script

polls a random json endpoint from the collection database and

then assembles a tweet with:

* Link to record

* An image of the artwork

* The title(s) of the artwork

* The maker(s) of the artwork

* Accession number

This currently pulls just from the works in Prints and Drawings with a picture

attached, this may change.

The bot tweets at https://twitter.com/fitzArtBot 

## How this works

To make this work, a Twitter App needs to be generated with elevated access to the V2 API (read and write) - apply for access from essential after generation.

Once you have set up the twitter account, you need to set the 4 keys referred to in the R script as secrets in the github repo settings. Then the action will be executed every 6 hours and send a tweet.

The endpoint from which JSON is retrieved can be found at https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/random and is also used to run https://random.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk 

## License

GPL V3 for code 

Content within the Fitz API that this calls data from is CC-0 for metadata, CC-BY-NC-ND for images.