This script downloads random comic from xkcd.com and upload it to a specified group in VK via vk's API.
To work properly you should make a .env file and put three parameters:
VK_TOKEN=<access token>
VK_GROUP_ID=<destination group id>
Install and activate virtual environment for project isolation. For example you can use this https://pypi.org/project/virtualenv/
Python3 should be already installed.
Then use pip
(or pip3
, if there is a conflict with Python2) to install dependencies:
pip install -r requirements.txt
Variable comic_filename
doesn't metter, you can choose any name, but please preserve .png extention.
The code is written for educational purposes on online-course for web-developers dvmn.org.