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Posted on Apr 26, 2022 • Edited on May 6, 2022

I made a twitter bot to take beautiful screenshots of a tweet

#python #showdev

Often times, after seeing a tweet, I go to https://poet.so to take a screenshot of it. However, this was kinda time consuming and stuff like that, but poet.so doesn't even have an API, so I create a selenium script that (very quickly) uses poet.so to take screenshots of a tweet.

To use the bot, simply reply to any tweet with @poet_this

The project is shockingly simple, but super useful. It hardly took 20 minutes for me to make it (because I already had some experiences with the twitter API - auto twitter banner changer )

in fact, it's so simple that this is all I needed to write (with a little bit of reverse engineering of the website and some keyboard tricks)



    def get_poem(self, link, savepath="tweet.png"):
        input_box = self.driver.find_element(by= "tag name", value="input")
        input_box.send_keys(link + u'\ue007')
        element = self.driver.find_element("xpath","//*[@data-export-hide]")

        # Waiting for the image to load
        time.sleep(5)
        element.screenshot(savepath)

Anyways, I hope you like my little project. If you have any suggestions or issues, feel free to post them on github.
The repository is public here:
Please ⭐ this!

Dhravya / beautify-this-bot

A twitter bot that simply replies with a beautiful screenshot of the tweet, powered by beautify.dhravya.dev

Poet this!

Replies with a beautiful screenshot of the tweet, powered by beautify.dhravya.dev

Installation

git clone https://github.com/dhravya/beautify-this-bot.git

cd beautify-this-bot
pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

python src/main.py

License

This project is licensed under the MIT license

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I'm considering options to host the bot too, but hosting anything using selenium is quite the pain so i'll try my best. For now it's online on my own computer