def maketweet(tweetit):
'''
Tweet the contents of a string variable
'''
os.chdir(base + "repo/twitterbot/")
import _settings as mpi # need to cd into this directory
t_keys = mpi.get_keys()
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(t_keys['CONSUMER_KEY'],
t_keys['CONSUMER_SECRET'])
auth.set_access_token(t_keys['ACCESS_KEY'], t_keys['ACCESS_SECRET'])
api = tweepy.API(auth)
tweet = api.update_status(tweetit)
from lxml import html
# ask if OSX
if os.sys.platform == 'darwin':
base ="/Users/akeil"
else:
base = "/home/akeil"
root = base + "/repo/twitterbot/"
os.chdir(root)
# set twitter api parameters
import _settings as mpi # need to cd into this directory
t_keys = mpi.get_keys()
api = TwitterAPI(t_keys['CONSUMER_KEY'], t_keys['CONSUMER_SECRET'], t_keys['ACCESS_KEY'], t_keys['ACCESS_SECRET'])
def process_search(searchURL):
headers = {'user-agent': 'hivemind_bot/0.10'}
try:
resp = requests.get(searchURL, headers=headers)
except:
print('failed at searching... oh well')
try:
thePage = html.fromstring(resp.text.encode("ascii","ignore"))
except:
print('failed at converting html... oh well')
else:
return thePage