Comments on: RSS Twitter Bot in Python

By: Google Buzz -> Twitter Export

Google Buzz -> Twitter Export — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:35:06 +0000

Using your example, I've written a python script to grab your Google Buzz feed (as detailed in the Buzz API), and automatically post your Buzz-es to Twitter. It includes a link back to the original Buzz URL (shortened with Bit.ly) It also uses a local sqlite database to store previous posts, and print bit.ly statistics for your published links. Google Buzz -> Twitter Export

By: Gregory Saxton

Gregory Saxton — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:55:58 +0000

Thanks, Matt!

By: Matt Warren

Matt Warren — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:51:41 +0000

there's no hard rules for how to organize these files. But personally I do all my development in my Dropbox directory. I'm constantly switching between 3 or 4 different computers and I like for the scripts I write to work on all of them so I put all my code and all 3rd party libraries in there as well. Then I don't have to install each library on all the computers separately. As long as I have the same version of Python installed everything just tends to work. A more advanced option is to use virtualenv to create separate locations for code. I haven't used it but it will allow you to more easily create work spaces for projects for different versions of Python, with different versions of libraries available.

By: Gregory Saxton

Gregory Saxton — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:29:27 +0000

Thanks–that did the trick! This may have been a newbie mistake, but I just placed the RSS_Twitter-feed.py script in my Downloads directory and was running it from there; as soon as I copied and pasted twitter.py into the same directory the whole thing worked.

That leads me to a follow-up question, if you don’t mind. :) What is a better place to put the scripts I’ll be executing, like this one? Do I put them in the same place as my python path?

Thanks in advance for your help.

By: Matt Warren

Matt Warren — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:22:37 +0000

hmm.. looks like it is probably the twitter library. There’s a couple of different ones out there. It’s possible that I have used a different library than you have. try downloading the one from http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/ and putting the twitter.py file in the same directory as your RSS_Twitter-feed.py script.

By: Gregory Saxton

Gregory Saxton — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:49:21 +0000

Hi,

This looks like a great script–thanks for sharing! I am a Python newbie, but managed to get a couple of your other Python scripts running. I’m using TextWrangler on my Mac to run the scripts, and first tried running them in Python 3,but just switched to 2.6.2, which seemed to do the trick. However, I’m having a bit of trouble with this one; here are the errors I’m getting:

/Users/gdsaxton/Downloads/RSS_Twitter-feed.py:76: Traceback (most recent call last): tweet_rss(‘http://twitter.com/QualityStocks’)

/Users/gdsaxton/Downloads/RSS_Twitter-feed.py:52: AttributeError: ‘module’ object has no attribute ‘Api’

Any advice?

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By: gba

gba — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:20:25 +0000

oh man sweet. i was about 80% into implementing a similar script, and the only part i had left was the queueing system. i was dreading writing my own system, so i googled ‘twitter post queue’ and found your post. thanks!

i’m going to try to integrate your queues into my software: http://code.google.com/p/chpcad/source/browse/bin/chpcad.py

By: kortina

kortina — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:08:50 +0000

Solid work! I ended up here after googling looking for a python script to email me all my @ replies, but this is cool too. Love the bit.ly integration.

By: Matt Warren

Matt Warren — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:21:21 +0000

Thanks for giving it a try.
I’m glad it worked well for you.