wmhartl / watchbot

Twitter bot for unique images of watches

Watch Bot

Watch Bot is designed to tweet unique images of watches captured from google image searching.

Instructions

Watch Bot is self-contained Python that can run via cron (for example, every four hours) with the attached watchbot.sh.

watchbot's Issues

Excess else in if statement chain

Think the last else might be excessive.

if not status and not filename:
    logging.error("Tweet error")
else:
    if filename:
        api.update_with_media(filename, status)
    else:
        if status:
            api.update_status(status)
        **else:
            logging.error("Nothing to tweet")**

Don't store files forever

This as written stores files forever. We could pare down beyond a certain timeframe (90 days?) but that could introduce duplicates to the feed over time.

Fix might require a rewrite to use the captured image file hash as the means to check for duplicates rather than the URL in order to safely dump the files.

Extend search if no unique images found

Would be nice to extend the search so that it looks for unique images longer than one google search pass.

Could put the entire main function in a loop and if no unique images are found either search a second google page or change the date for the search. Could also store images not used in a day in the database with an additional "unused" field that could be tapped when no unique images are found.

Add "#watches" to tweets

Log to file

It would be nice to have a configuration option to log to a file.

Error checking in exec_google_search

Need to extend error checking in exec_google_search - either if/then or try/except, need to research Beautiful Soup.

Add a catchy phrase to tweet

Rather than just tweet the same phrase every time, provide a set of possible tweets to choose from (possibly randomly).

Include bash script and cron instructions