Posts word definitions on Twitter daily

Lucas Rijllart

Last update: Jan 8, 2022

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Overview

Word Of The Day bot

Post daily word definitions on social media.

Twitter account: https://twitter.com/WordOfTheDay_B

Introduction

The goal of this project is to create a bot that posts a "word of the day" style update, which contains a random word and its definition.

The main process flow is the following:

Retrieve a random word and its definition through the use of a 3rd-party API
Generate an HTML page with the retrieved data using a template
Render the HTML page into an image
Post the image to social media

The social media posts are performed every day through the Twitter schedule Action

Technologies used

Here is a list of the technologies that were used as part of the project:

Python3 as main language
unittest for testing
WordsAPI from RapidAPI for random words and definitions
Jinja2 with HTML/CSS for templating
wkhtmltoimage for image rendering
TwitterAPI for Twitter integration
GitHub Actions for continuous integration and scheduled tasks
Vim as editor
Trello for project management

Local development

Create or workon the virual environment:

workon word-of-the-day

Install dependencies using requirments file:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Run unit tests:

python -m unittest discover tests/unit/

Generate a new image and open it (Ubuntu only):

generate_and_open

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Releases(1.0.0)

1.0.0(Jun 1, 2021)
Summary

First release of the word-of-the-day-bot project.

This project posts a random word and definition as a picture on a dedicated Twitter account. The account is available here: https://twitter.com/WordOfTheDay_B.

Features

4 entrypoints to the Python program to generate or post to Twitter

Templates and colour schemes to generate images that suit the Twitter dark scheme.

5 GitHub workflows:

twitter-schedule: a scheduled action that generates and posts a new image to Twitter

twitter-post: allows posting to Twitter manually using the workflow_dispatch event trigger

generate-new-image: allows to run the whole twitter posting process without actually posting to twitter to debug artifacts generated

twitter-post-checker: a bash script that can check whether the Twitter account has posted today

tests: run unit and functional tests

Specific modules to handle rendering images from HTML files, retrieving random words and definitions from a RapidAPI, and posting images to a Twitter account.
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