thread-it

A simple Twitter bot and a webpage which allows users to save any desired tweet or thread for later use just by mentioning this bot. The saved tweet/thread can be viewed in the webpage after loggin in with twitter. Users can also download tweets from webpage as a text file. They will also receive a copy of direct message from the bot.

Team members

1. Alwin Joseph
2. Muhammed Rizal K E
3. Sankar Vinayak E P

Team Id

BFH/recbY0A1OBTpNxJ5c/2021

Link to product walkthrough

link to video

How it Works ?

Bot

1. This project uses tweepy which is a Python library for accessing the Twitter API.
2. We use tweepy to get the mentions for our bot.
3. And using that mention, the thread/tweet is saved to a string along with the user who mentioned the bot.
4. The saved variables are pushed to an SQL database using sqlalchemy library.
5. The bot also sends a DM to the user with the thread(You have to follow the bot for DM to work)

Website

1. The website uses flask.
2. The website has a twitter login through which we get an userid of Twitter user.
3. Then the website searches for the userid in database and displays the result which can be downloaded as a thread.

Libraries used

1. click 7.1.2
2. Flask 2.0.1
3. Flask-Dance 5.0.0
4. Flask-Login 0.5.0
5. Flask-SQLAlchemy 2.5.1
6. gunicorn 20.1.0
7. itsdangerous 2.0.1
8. Jinja2 3.0.1
9. SQLAlchemy 1.4.15
10. tweepy 3.10.0
11. psycopg2-binary 2.8.6

How to configure

1. Clone the GitHub repository.

git clone https://github.com/save-tweet/thread-it.git

2. Create a virtual environment and activate it using:

virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate

3. Install the libraries mentioned in requirements using:

pip install -r requirements.txt

How to Run

Create 2 terminal instances. On first one run:

python main.py

And on second instance run:

python wsgi.py