Introduction
bernie_bro.py searches for recent news articles from Washington Post, NPR, NYTimes, and Reuters. When the articles are related to Trump or Sanders, it ranks the article for sentiment. If the Trump sentiment is negative, it shares a message and the link to the article on the user's FB homepage. If the Sanders sentiment is positive, it shares a message and the link to the article on the user's FB page. It posts only 1 message and 1 article per person per run. It can therefore be set up in a cron job to run multiple times a day, week, month, etc.
Requirement
python >= 3.7
pyenv for Ubuntu focal 20.04.1 LTS maybe you need the following dependencies for python 3.9.1:
apt install zlib1g-dev
apt install libssl-dev
apt install libbz2-dev
apt install libreadline-dev
apt install sqlite3
apt install libsqlite3-dev
On Linux/Ubuntu/Raspberry Pi:
git clone https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv.git ~/.pyenv && \
echo 'export PYENV_ROOT="$HOME/.pyenv"' >> ~/.bashrc && \
echo 'export PATH="$PYENV_ROOT/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc && \
echo -e 'if command -v pyenv 1>/dev/null 2>&1; then\n eval "$(pyenv init -)"\nfi' >> ~/.bashrc && \
source ~/.bashrc && \
pyenv install 3.8.0 && \
pyenv global 3.8.0 && \
python --version
On MacOS Catalina:
git clone https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv.git ~/.pyenv && \
echo 'export PYENV_ROOT="$HOME/.pyenv"' >> ~/.zshenv && \
echo 'export PATH="$PYENV_ROOT/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshenv && \
echo -e 'if command -v pyenv 1>/dev/null 2>&1; then\n eval "$(pyenv init -)"\nfi' >> ~/.zshenv &&
source ~/.zshenv && \
pyenv install 3.8.0 && \
pyenv global 3.8.0 && \
python --version
Firefox browser (or on Raspberry pi, firefox erf)
sudo apt-get install firefox-esr
geckodriver
On macOs, download unpack and mv the binary to /usr/local/bin: https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/tag/v0.25.0 On Raspberry pi, download unpack and mv the binary to /usr/local/bin:
wget -o https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/download/v0.22.0/geckodriver-v0.22.0-arm7hf.tar.gz
Quickstart
git clone https://github.com/dnck/bernie_bro.git && \
cd bernie_bro && \
python -m venv . && \
source bin/activate && \
pip install -r requirements.txt && \
touch .env
Now create your local .env file to store secrets.
EMAIL=<your-fb-email-address>
PASSWORD=<your-fb-password>
TWITTER_A_TOKEN=<twitter-access-token>
TWITTER_A_SECRET=<twitter-access-secret>
TWITTER_C_TOKEN=<twitter-consumer-token>
TWITTER_C_SECRET=<twitter-consumer-secret>
TWITTER_NAME=<twitter-name>
For explanations on how to get the twitter tokens and secrets, see: http://docs.tweepy.org/en/v3.8.0/getting_started.html
Even without the twitter tokens, you can run a test of the fb_postman:
python ./test_fb_postman.py
To set up a recurring cron job for bernie_bro, on a Linux system, make a crontab entry:
Using,
crontab -e
Your crontab should look like this,
# Edit this file to introduce tasks to be run by cron.
#
# Each task to run has to be defined through a single line
# indicating with different fields when the task will be run
# and what command to run for the task
#
# To define the time you can provide concrete values for
# minute (m), hour (h), day of month (dom), month (mon),
# and day of week (dow) or use '*' in these fields (for 'any').
#
# Notice that tasks will be started based on the cron's system
# daemon's notion of time and timezones.
#
# Output of the crontab jobs (including errors) is sent through
# email to the user the crontab file belongs to (unless redirected).
#
# For example, you can run a backup of all your user accounts
# at 5 a.m every week with:
# 0 5 * * 1 tar -zcf /var/backups/home.tgz /home/
#
# For more information see the manual pages of crontab(5) and cron(8)
#
# m h dom mon dow command
0 10 * * * /bin/bash /home/<user>/bernie_bro/vote_bernie.sh >/home/<user>/bernie_bro/log.log 2>&1
0 10 * * * /bin/bash /home/<user>/bernie_bro/impeach_trump.sh >/home/<user>/bernie_bro/log.log 2>&1
Every morning at 10am, bernie_bro will post for you.