sunsetbot

Twitter bot that posts a daily photo of the sunset from my camera live stream on YouTube

Dependencies

• Sunwait - install from source or use the Ubuntu snap or MacPorts
• Python Twitter API
• youtube-dl
• ffmpeg

Setup

1. Set up a camera pointing out of your window towards the sunset, and livestream it on YouTube
2. Set up Twitter: Sign up for Twitter account for your bot, apply for Twitter Developer account using your new Twitter account, create an application and get the keys
3. Clone repository to your server
4. Rename twitter_secrets_template.py to twitter_secrets.py and add the keys you got from Twitter
5. Edit sunsetbot.py to update your location (lat, long - must be in a format recognisable by sunwait), and the URL to your YouTube livestream (youtube_link)
6. Keep Debug set to True (to avoid a long wait) and run the script (python3 sunsetbot.py) to check that the image has been captured an posted on Twitter
7. Set Debug to False and get cron to run your script once a day, around mid-day. sunsetwait will cause the script to pause until sunset, at which point the image will be captured and posted on Twitter. The script will then quit and will get to run again next day using cron