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Use a python bot to post your flickr pictures to twitter
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import tweepy | |
import flickrapi | |
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup | |
from urllib2 import urlopen | |
from random import choice | |
import random | |
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET | |
random.seed() | |
consumer_key='' | |
consumer_secret='' | |
access_token_key='' | |
access_token_secret='' | |
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret) | |
auth.set_access_token(access_token_key, access_token_secret) | |
bot = tweepy.API(auth) | |
fkey = "" | |
colton_user_id = "113567215@N05" | |
flickr = flickrapi.FlickrAPI(fkey) | |
photos = flickr.photos_search(user_id = colton_user_id, per_page=1000) | |
soup = BeautifulSoup(ET.tostring(photos, encoding='utf8', method='xml')) | |
possibilities= soup.find_all('photo') | |
my_choice = choice(possibilities) | |
my_id = my_choice['id'] | |
my_title = my_choice['title'] | |
my_photo_url = """https://www.flickr.com/photos/113567215@N05/""" + my_id | |
tweet = '{title}: {link}'.format(title=my_title, link=my_photo_url) | |
bot.update_status(tweet) |
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