Birbybot

It makes the good chemical spray everywhere.

Birbybot is the code behind @beachbirbys, the Twitter bot dedicated to bringing me you Creative Commons–licensed photos of baby shorebirds.

Birbybot is built with:

It is hosted on PythonAnywhere, where it tries to stay out of the tarpit.

Files

flickr_to_datastore.py Should be run once a month via cron, but I don't have it set up anywhere.
classify_images.py Should be run after new images are added to datastore.
tweet.py Chooses image from datastore and tweets it. Cron job runs daily.

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slides		slides
.gitignore		.gitignore
README.md		README.md
bats.py		bats.py
classify_images.py		classify_images.py
flickr_to_datastore.py		flickr_to_datastore.py
index.yaml		index.yaml
requirements.txt		requirements.txt
secrets_skeleton.sh		secrets_skeleton.sh
test_utils.py		test_utils.py
tweet.py		tweet.py
utils.py		utils.py