rgho/iss_twitter_bot

International space station status twitter bot.

About

This is a simple example of a twitter bot using tweepy. It posts latitude, longitude, velocity, and altitude of the International Space center to twitter.

Install and Run

$ pip install requests
$ pip install tweepy
$ python ISS_twitter.py

Setup Cron

You can use a simple cron job to run the bot at specified times. Here is an example crontab file to run the script every hour.

0 * * * * python /path/to/ISS_twitter.py

Credits:

• Tweepy Docs
• Where is the ISS at?

License

• See imported libraries, api's for their own licenses.
• ISS_twitter.py is released under MIT License