Regularly change a twitter bio to a Just William quote.
To access the twitter API, you'll need to ask for their permission.
Setup a twitter app.
They will give you some secret keys.
Put the secret keys in a new file titled my_secrets.py
with the variable names as demo-ed in my_sea_crates.py.
The script update_profile.py uses the secret keys,
and the python3 module python-twitter
to talk to twitter,
so you'll need that module installed.
The script will look at a random line in quotes.txt.
Get some quotes from your favourite book, or song lyrics or whatever and put one per line in quotes.txt.
I stripped mine from the speech appearing in
Just William
Unix users can use cron to execute the script at regular times, or time intervals. To add a job open crontab
crontab -e
and add the desired command. For example, the following will run the script every minute.
*/1 * * * * python3 ~/PATH/TO/just_tweet_william/update_profile.py