African Esports News Bot 🎮🌍

Automated news curation and social media posting tool for African Esports. Powered by xAI Grok (News Curation), Google Gemini (Summarization/Filtering), and X API (Posting).

Features

• Smart Curation: Uses Grok (connected to live X search) to find real-time esports news from the last 48 hours.
• Intelligent Filtering: Filters out non-African news and irrelevant noise (betting, crypto, etc.).
• Card Generation: Automatically designs professional social media cards with specific entity highlighting.
• Auto-Posting: Posts directly to X (Twitter) with a single confirmation.

Setup

1. Install Dependencies:

   python3 -m venv venv
   source venv/bin/activate
   pip install -r requirements.txt

2. Configuration:

   • Rename config.example.json to config.json.
   • Add your API Keys:
     • x_api_key: xAI Console (for Grok)
     • gemini_api_key: Google AI Studio
     • twitter_*: X Developer Portal (Consumer + Access Tokens)

Usage

Run the Automation:

python ANB_Grok/grok_fetch.py

1. It searches X for news.
2. Generates a daily digest (generated_cards/digest_DATE.md).
3. Creates visual cards for top stories.
4. Asks: 🚀 Proceed with posting? (y/n)
5. If 'y', uploads images and posts tweets to your account.

Directory Structure

• ANB_Grok/: Main logic for Grok fetcher and card generation.
• ANB_NewsAPI/: Legacy NewsAPI implementation.
• social_poster.py: Shared module for X API interaction.
• esports_automation.py: Shared utilities for image processing.