keshabb/tweet-scheduler

Schedule Tweets with Flask and Heroku

Build & Deploy a Python Web App To Schedule Tweets.

I'm using Flask, Heroku, the Twitter API & Google Sheets API for this. The app can be hosted for free.

You can use this repo as a starting point. Watch how I build and deploy this app step by step here:

Flask Quickstart:

Create virtual env

python3 -m venv venv
Activate (on Mac):
. venv/bin/activate

pip install Flask
export FLASK_APP=app/main.py
flask run

Heroku start

heroku login -i
heroku create your_app_name

add config vars:

heroku config:set CONSUMER_KEY=xxx
heroku config:set CONSUMER_SECRET=xxx
heroku config:set ACCESS_TOKEN=xxx
heroku config:set ACCESS_SECRET=xxx
heroku config:set INTERVAL=1200
heroku config:set DEBUG=0

Scale worker:

heroku ps:scale worker=1

Test locally:

heroku local

Push to Heroku:

git init
heroku git:remote -a your_app_name
git add .
git commit -m "initial commit"
git push heroku master

and later your secret.json:

git checkout -b secret-branch
  --> remove secret.json from *.gitignore* on new branch
git add .
git commit -m "add credentials"
git push heroku secret-branch:master