/nich-image-scheduler

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Nich Image Scheduler

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This tool allows for scheduling media posts to several platforms in an automated way, with configured presets. This can be combined with say, systemd or cron, to post at intervals. Mainly intended to allow friends to post their arts without worrying about the actual scheduling process.

Currently supports

  • Deviant
  • Twitter

Installation should be no more than pip install -r requirements.txt on the production machine, or pip install -r requirements-dev.txt when developing*

  • PyQT does not work on linux that easily, so the image picker deps are separated to dev

1. set up an accounts.yml

See the provided accounts.example.yml for a baseline

2. run the starter script for image_selector.py, and add captions to the images

python src/image_selector.py nick

3. (deviant only), log in to deviant first time

python src/authenticate_deviant.py nick

Go to localhost:3000/login, and accept The contents will be written to a non versioned folder using the id in the associated yaml account

Note: you need this redirect_url and the callback configured in deviant

4. Add jobs for scheduling

Eg

[Service]
ExecStart=/home/nick/nich-image-scheduler/src/schedule_image.py nick Twitter

Sub configs

The accounts.yml allows for a sub_configs section. Based on the provided directory_path, if the file matches the given path, the settings associated with said sub config will override the base config. This allows a user to categorize their pictures on a platform based on their folder name structure for example.