https://github.com/theju/smp

Social Media Post scheduler
https://github.com/theju/smp

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Social Media Post scheduler

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/theju/smp
• Owner: theju
• License: mit
• Created: 2015-12-31T07:23:17.000Z (almost 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2017-01-12T16:07:07.000Z (almost 8 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-07-27T06:34:01.831Z (4 months ago)
• Language: Python
• Size: 49.8 KB
• Stars: 20
• Watchers: 5
• Forks: 5
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE.txt

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# Scheduled Social Media Poster

A simple web app to schedule your Social Media Posts either through a web

interface or an API. Currently supports Facebook and Twitter.

## Install

* Clone the git repo

  ```

  git clone https://github.com/theju/smp

  cd smp

  ```

* Install the dependencies listed in the requirements.txt

  ```

  pip install -r requirements.txt

  ```

* Create the db schema. Uses sqlite3 by default. Create a local.py file under the

  `smp/smp` directory to change it.

  ```

  python manage.py migrate

  ```

* Run the dev server.

  ```

  python manage.py runserver

  ```

* Create an admin user

  ```

  python manage.py createsuperuser

  ```

* Login to the admin page at http://localhost:8000/admin/ and enter the social application

  credentials at http://localhost:8000/admin/socialaccount/socialapp/

  ([FB app instructions](https://developers.facebook.com/apps/) and [Twitter app instructions](https://apps.twitter.com/)).

* Setup a crontab script that runs the following command every minute

  ```

  python manage.py autopost

  ```

## Advanced

### Schedule posts through API

* Fetch the API Key from the web interface for the user and perform a HTTP

  Basic Authenticated POST request with the username as your API Key and

  blank password at http://localhost:8000/api/post/add/ to schedule posts.

  **CURL Example**

  ```

  curl -X POST -u  -d "status=Hello+World&service=facebook&scheduled_datetime=2016-01-01T00:01:00Z" http://localhost:8000/api/post/add/

  ```

  **Requests Example**

  ```

  import requests

  import datetime

  

  requests.post("http://localhost:8000/api/post/add/", data={

      "status": "Hello World",

      "service": "facebook",

      "scheduled_datetime": datetime.datetime(2016, 01, 01, 00, 01, 00).strftime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ"),

      "scheduled_tz": "UTC"

  }, auth=("", ""))

  ```