Every 60 minutes this Python script posts to https://twitter.com/wiki_tmnt and https://botsin.space/@tmnt
For fun! Inspired by https://xkcd.com/1412/
When it runs, it:
- Pulls 10 random Wikipedia article titles
- Checks if they are in trochaic tetrameter
- If not, pull 10 more articles ad hominum until a match is found
- Create a faux-TMNT logo containing the wiki title
- I'm using the logic at http://glench.com/tmnt to do this
- Post the title and generated logo to @wiki_tmnt on Twitter
This script requires the following:
- Python >= 3.7
- Earlier may work, only tested on 3.7
- Chrome >= 57
- Via PyPi:
- pronouncing
- num2words
- PIL
For @wiki_tmnt it runs on a cron job on my local machine.
I haven't defined a config file format yet, it's in the TODO list below. Common config knobs are currently mostly in lib/constants.py.
I'm not developing this for anyone but myself, so you may see some anti-patterns like hardcoded paths specific to my environment, and general lack of configurability outside editing the source.
TODO:
- More docstrings
- README
- CLI arguments
- use real file format for keys
- refactor key fetching to be done once
- Integration tests
- more unit tests
- actually enable option to run doctests
- Run glench.com/tmnt locally
Super bonus points:
- CI
- Mastodon
- zipapp release
- archive posts locally
- cache of titles : stresses