SpaceX Smart-Tweets

A simple tweet processor for automatically and intelligently sorting tweets related to SpaceX.

Dependencies

• Requires Python >= 3.9
• Requires poetry available in the environment

Install

1. Clone the repo and enter it: git clone insert-repository-url-here && cd spacex_smartweets

2. Install required modules: poestry install

3. Install NLTK modules: poetry run python -m nltk.downloader punkt averaged_perceptron_tagger wordnet omw-1.4

4. Create empty text files: touch log.txt seen_tweets.txt keys.json

5. Populate "keys.json" file with the following entries:

   {
       "twitter": {
           "consumer_key": "twitter_consumer_key_here",
           "consumer_secret": "twitter_consumer_secret_here",
           "access_token_key": "twitter_access_token_key_here",
           "access_token_secret": "twitter_access_token_secret_here"
       },
       "discord": {
           "webhook": "discord_webhook_url_here"
       }
   }

Run

1. You can run the script manually:

   poetry run python tweetsearch.py

2. Or you can run it on a schedule with a cron task such as (insert the following into your Cron file using crontab -e):

   PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/path/to/home/.poetry/bin
   
   */2 * * * * cd /path/to/home/github/spacex_smartweets && poetry run python tweetsearch.py

   Remember to have /path/to/home/.poetry/bin, and where python3 resides in the PATH inside the crontab.

   NOTE: The above cron task will run every 2 minutes