https://github.com/rob-med/botpitchfork

BotPitchfork, a Pitchfork Twitter bot
https://github.com/rob-med/botpitchfork

flask heroku music pitchfork twitter twitter-api twitter-bot

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BotPitchfork, a Pitchfork Twitter bot

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/rob-med/botpitchfork
• Owner: rob-med
• License: other
• Created: 2020-01-24T16:00:41.000Z (almost 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-02-02T02:19:12.000Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-03-04T19:51:14.418Z (over 1 year ago)
• Topics: flask, heroku, music, pitchfork, twitter, twitter-api, twitter-bot
• Language: Python
• Homepage: https://twitter.com/BotPitchfork
• Size: 5.86 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 3
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# BotPitchfork, a Pitchfork Twitter bot

This repo contains the code running the [BotPitchfork](https://twitter.com/BotPitchfork) Twitter bot, which tweets Pitchfork's best new music - tracks, albums and reissues - as soon as it's announced. 

The bot is built using [Dashblock](https://dashblock.com) and [Tweepy](http://tweepy.org).

Everything is hosted on Heroku, with a Flask app.

## Description

A detailed description of the project can be found [on Medium](https://medium.com/analytics-vidhya/building-a-twitter-bot-with-any-data-using-dashblock-and-tweepy-fd2b9f7ff5fc).

## Hosting 

The template used to host the Flask app on Heroku comes from:

https://github.com/yefim/flask-heroku-sample.

There you will also find instructions on how to deploy to Heroku.

## Automated Tweeting

To enable constant monitoring and automated tweeting you need to create a cron job in Heroku, and this can be done using the [Heroku Scheduler](https://addons-sso.heroku.com/apps/d1734328-bd3f-484a-ac91-2e1aa2627c80/addons/1370e47f-2612-4cae-a639-19fc0527d03c) add on, connected to the **post.py** script.