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2013AUG21
* uses tweepy and has restriction of python2-6/7
<https://github.com/tweepy/tweepy>
* readying to upload as github code
- licensing moving towards GPL3
* added
- .gitignore
- .requirements.txt
- twi/secrets.py for key/secret values (not uploaded)
- ABOUT.txt, auth.py
2013JUN12
* problems with authentication
- upgraded tweepy
- added display flag in tw/tools.py
2013JAN20
* have to rethink the list idea
- timing example in doc/ didn't work
2013JAN11
* desirable: pass previous lists as filename on -b option
- this is good because a created list might expire with the code
you have
./tw.py -b testing.lst
* if there is no list & first time you create a list then re-run
but don't add items, throw message of zero items in list, repopulate
* back into coding
2012DEC10
* what happens to a batch that you didn't send or if you want to specify a
particular date?
* for lyrics check that text is lower case
2012DEC02
* batch mode that sends more than 1 tweet & also has ability to send via file
* want to be able to read lines from file
- overcome limitations of CLI input, namely adding '$' to a line.
/// read above me
2012OCT28
* refactorised tw.py
- changed -l so only required & calls twi.send to process
- changed -s calls twi.send to process msg
* refactored twi.py
- added 'def send(msg)' to simplify/reduce code
* fixed a bug introduced by Twitter
- details <https://dev.twitter.com/discussions/12107>
- fix by @tomp83 Tom Perry who suggested using
".update_status('tweet text', headers={'content-length': 0})"
- found this in twi.py Twi.send, L 70
2011MAY31
* installed on puffy OpenBSD4.9
- working ok
* start to add more features
- get previous posts
- delete old post by Next/previous selection
- stats on tweets sent
- extract links from twits sent
2010APR20
* error on connection
- works ok but object not properly explaining error
Error: We have a connection problem and cannot authenticate
<class 'tweepy.error.TweepError'>
2011APR18
* tests
- check data dir there (hardcoded)
- test all imported modules are there
+ when I installed app from start had to also
import quite a few external modules: simplejson
& tweepy.
2011APR12
* Observations
- after using this for a while I've noticed a few
things to fix, build and idea for a port.
- some things I've noticed:
+ have trouble setting up cli args
+ send message but don't know until I've tried to
send message is too big
+ excessively long urls have to go to bit.ly to get
compessed url
+ how do I know if I've re-tweeted?
+ if I make a mistake I have to go back & delete online then
go back to the data/*.json file & add redacted=true to the
data file
* Fix
- check for data dir if not in source dir
- create new data dir, warn user new dir is created &
save data
- notify user if new twits have been messaged to you
- re-load last N tweets so you can read past sent twits
- give user count of characters if failed to send
* Report
- want report of twits sent: OR read in twit as data to
be able to manipulate
* Port
- I want this ported to a webpage
+ use nodejs to call python backend
2011MAR27
* display
- added quick display method to allow turn off/on
* test
- for test I should I use the test api? or just do as
I thought before (details of message/but not send)
* report
- turns tw.twi.DISPLAY to True
- allows all details to be shown for current message
- also read data/ files for more information stats
2011MAR26
* tw/data
- storage for json lines of twitter data sent.
- stores the message, id and date in epoc format.
- lines are valid json but not as a whole file.
- filename is generated by YYYYMMMDD.json format.
* tw/config.py
- config options stored here
* tw/twi.Twi
- object authenticates then allows to send a message, save
and validate beforehand.
- this has turned out the best way. Make sure you check the
except tweepy.TweepError examples and the API.
* tw.py
- completed the command line for send & version. Yet to do test
and report.
- should probably work on read, delete and a few other commands
to avoid having to check the site.
* tw/auth.py
- configuration: wrote a quick hack tw/auth.py which if you apply
for a dev consumer key/secret off twitter allows you to generate the
access key/secret to authenticate.
playing around with options. I want to be able to have the basics
like -v for version and -h for help. For sending I want to have
an option to send if valid <Send> (-s) and a test <Test> (-t) which
allows you to play with input options that doesn't send but reports
the results. The last option is <Report> (-r) giving you stats on
the last "N" message sent including number of characters
*options
-v = version
-s = send if ok
-t = tests if valid, reports msg actual & chopped, count
-r = last 'n' messasge sent
Originally I thought of:
-n = new is equiv to -d -s
-d = display only
-t = test & report
-s = test if count ok, send
-c = count characters in post
-v = version
[1] 'Twi' title was created with an ASCII text generator using 'slant' and 'stretch=Yes".
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[Last accessed: Sunday 28th October, 2012]
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