vikkecarson / blm-twitter-bot

Inform users clogging the #BlackLivesMatter tag on IG with solid images

blm-instagram-bot

Instagram bot that informs users using the BlackLivesMatter tag to post solid images that they may be accidentally hiding important information about the movement.

Uses a Google Cloud Function called blm-cloud-function to determine if the image is a solid black image. This is to offload the image processing to the cloud and hopefully keep things running smooth.

Setup

You need Python 3 and pip. On Ubuntu: sudo apt install python3-dev python3-pip will get you there. You will use python3 and pip3 in place of pip and python, unless you override which the default is with your $PATH variable.

1. Run pip install -r requirements.txt. If you are not on Windows, comment out the lines with pywin32 and pypiwin32.
2. Rename .env.example to .env
3. Run python3 bot.py

To-Do

1. Poll the tag. Right now it only goes through the current posts and stops.

Make sure to rename .env.example to .env Also make sure you're using Python 3.5 or greater