/THDTwitterNews

Aim of this small project is to create an twitter rest app that will be run on crontab and will return json representation of user's feed.

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THD Twitter News

Short description

Aim of this small project is to create an twitter rest app that will be run on crontab and will return json representation of users feed.

Installation

  • Install python and pip
  • Install virtualenv sudo pip install virtualenv
  • Clone this repository git clone https://github.com/furai/THDTwitterNews.git
  • cd into THDTwitterNews folder and create virtualenv virtualenv --no-site-packages envthdnews
  • Activate virtualenv source envthdnews/bin/activate
  • Install pip requirements pip install -r requirements.txt
  • Copy settingy.py.example to settings.py and edit it
  • Run tndnews for the first time python thdnews.py
  • Follow instructions and copy access token to settings
  • Add a crontab job
    • Example (will run cronjob every 15 minutes): */15 * * * * /path/to/your/cloned/repo/THDTwitterNews/envthdnews/bin/python /path/to/your/cloned/repo/THDTwitterNews/thdnews.py