readme.md

About A Twitter bot for tweeting the titles and links of new articles from https://fedoramagazine.org/.

Install run pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Test it run python3 index.py

See the output https://youtu.be/wc7JKTlv3KM

Initial Algorithm / Pseudocode

0. Scrape the titles and links of all posts from https://fedoramagazine.org/

1. Check if there are any NEW posts and if so, save them in the mongodb database

2. If there are new posts 2.1 Login (if not already)

   2.2 compose new tweet 2.3 Post tweet 2.4 Exit

3. If No new posts 3.1 Inform use about the same 3.2 Exit

Tech Used Used

• Selenium for webscraping
• BeautifulSoup for parsing the https://fedoramagazine.org/ page and getting new posts
• Pymongo (MongoDB driver for Python) for storing new posts

Contents

• index.py Heart of the program. It's execute function runs the whole program Besides that, the login and tweet functions from it are used to well....login and tweet. I could've made a new file for it, but I'm too lazy and stuff works rn, and I want to get over with the task

Uses db.py's getNewPosts for getting all the new posts (posts whose isNew property is set to True).

• getFedora.py Scrapes the fedora magazine website for articles. Uses db.py's saveNewPost function to save only new posts to db with their isNew property set to True.

• db.py Responsible for all MongoDB related operations. Each "post" object/dictionary/documents has the following properties, (besides the _id):

1. title -> title of the post {string}
2. link -> link to the post {string}
3. isNew -> determines whether the given post is newly stored in the db and has not been posted before. {string}

Note to self: Although you won't do this, experiment with the typing in tweeting box problem you faced. It's most probably to do with the 'contenteditable' thingie, but still do experiment. (TBH Knowing me I won't)