National Gallery Art Twitter Bot

This bot generates daily tweets at @natgallerysgbot, detailing artworks from the National Gallery Singapore's (looove) collection.

Built with

• Tweepy library
• Heroku hosting

Building locally

1. Install Python 3.6 or newer
2. Clone the repo
3. cd natgallerysg_twitterbot
4. Create a virtual environment (optional)
5. Run pip install -r requirements.txt
6. Create a new twitter account
7. Obtain developer keys and update local_settings.py
8. Run python bot.py

This will post a tweet to your Twitter account.

References

• Inspired by existing Museum Twitter Bots
• https://github.com/dariusk/museumbot (and many other Twitter bot examples)
• https://hackernoon.com/deploying-twitter-bot-to-heroku-6b143uaj