Description

Python script to share content from social media sites to a slack channel based on user accounts and hashtags.

Features

Networks

Twitter

Setup

Internal

The following will need to be added to the route directoy

settings.py - this will have api keys etc in

Settings.py

The settings file will need to have the following values:

TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY=<twitter_consumer_key>
TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET=<twitter_consumer_secret>
TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_KEY=<twitter_access_token_key>
TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET=<twitter_access_token_secret>
#TWITTER_SCREEN_NAMES={"twitter_username":"slack_username","twitter_username_two":"slack_username_two"}
TWITTER_SCREEN_NAMES=<dict_of_twitter_accounts_to_check_and_slack_usernames>

SLACK_TOKEN=<slack_api_token>
SLACK_CHANNEL=<slack_channel_to_share_to>

SHARE_HASH=<hashtag_to_share>

#The interval between scripts running, posts older then this wont be posted
REFRESH_TIME_SECONDS=<seconds_interval>

Dependencies

The script relies on python-twitter, this can be installed through pip:

$ pip install python-twitter

Please see the instructions in the projects README for more information.