heroku-twitter-starter

Using Heroku's scheduler, post tweets at a regular interval.

This repo is forked from heroku_ebooks by @tommeagher. I wanted a stripped-down, bare-bones example of how to use the Twitter API with Heroku.

Setup

Clone this repo
Create a Twitter account that you will post to.
Sign into https://dev.twitter.com/apps with the same login and create an application. Make sure that your application has read and write permissions to make POST requests.
Make a copy of the local_settings_example.py file and name it local_settings.py
Take the consumer key (and secret) and access token (and secret) from your Twiter application and paste them into the appropriate spots in local_settings.py.
Create an account at Heroku, if you don't already have one. Install the Heroku toolbelt and set your Heroku login on the command line.
Type the command heroku create to generate the Python app.
The only Python requirement for this script is python-twitter, the pip install of which is handled by Heroku automatically.
git commit -am 'updated the local_settings.py'
git push heroku master
Test your upload by typing heroku run worker. Check your Twitter account to see if it worked.
Now it's time to configure the scheduler. heroku addons:create scheduler:standard (You'll need to add a credit card to your account if you haven't already - but don't worry, we'll be using the Free tier.)
Once that runs, type heroku addons:open scheduler. This will open up a browser window where you can adjust the time interval for the script to run. The scheduled command should be python bot.py. I recommend setting it at one hour.
Sit back and enjoy the fruits of your labor.