https://github.com/healeycodes/twitter-ticker-tape

🖨️ A Raspberry Pi project to read tweets via receipt printer
https://github.com/healeycodes/twitter-ticker-tape

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🖨️ A Raspberry Pi project to read tweets via receipt printer

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/healeycodes/twitter-ticker-tape
• Owner: healeycodes
• License: mit
• Created: 2020-04-10T19:21:05.000Z (almost 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2020-04-12T19:24:40.000Z (almost 6 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-05-06T02:06:05.734Z (11 months ago)
• Topics: pos58, raspberry-pi, receipt-printer, tweepy
• Language: Python
• Homepage: https://healeycodes.com/twitter-ticker-tape/
• Size: 8.12 MB
• Stars: 18
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

          
# Twitter Ticker Tape

Screens tend to keep me awake in the evening so I wondered if I could print out my Twitter home timeline, live, as I read a book in the evening.

Here’s the final project in action:

![A POS58 receipt printer printing out textual tweets](https://github.com/healeycodes/twitter-ticker-tape/blob/master/in-action.gif)

See my [**blog post**](https://healeycodes.com/twitter-ticker-tape/) for more extensive documentation and a beginner-friendly explanation of the project.




### Install

_Tested with: Python 3.5.3, Raspbian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch)_

`pip3 install -r requirements.txt`




### Setup

Set your Twitter API keys inside `config.py` or export them as environmental values.

- `CONSUMER_KEY`

- `CONSUMER_SECRET`

- `ACCESS_TOKEN`

- `ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET`

If you're using a different printer to POS58 then export the vendor id and product id as environmental values.

- `ID_VENDOR`

- `ID_PRODUCT`




### Run

`python3 poller.py`




### License

MIT.