iowabeakster tweetup 20130729

basic functions of script

• take -f /path/to/image/file command line argument
• take -t "Tweet to accompany image" command line argument
• import necessary modules
• make magic happen (upload image and tweet to twitter)

link

Github Link

script code

#!/usr/bin/env python

import sys
import json
import os
import tweetpony
import argparse

"""

Function to post image to twitter with accompanying tweeet.

Go to twitters developers page and get credentials:

consumer_key
consumer_secret
access_token
access_token_secret

Enter credentials in line 37


Usage: $ tweetup -f /path/to/image/file -t "Tweet text"

"""


# create proper command args for image file (-f) and tweet(-t)
def main(args):
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
    parser.add_argument("-f", "--file", dest="file")
    parser.add_argument("-t", "--tweet", dest="tweet")
# parse the args
    args = parser.parse_args()

# magic function for authorizing twitter API and account
    api = tweetpony.API('consumer_key', 'consumer_secret', 'access_token', 'access_token_secret')

# function for sending the image and tweet
    status = api.update_status_with_media(status = args.tweet, media = args.file)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main(sys.argv)