Random picture

A Python script that prints the markdown for a painting selected from one of several art-themed Twitter accounts.

The snippet is intended to be used in pull request descriptions.

Install

Create a Python 3.10 virtualenv and run make install.

Configure

Add Twitter credentials in a config.py module:

TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY = '...'
TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET = '...'
TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_KEY = '...'
TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET  = '...'

and a list of Twitter usernames to select the image from:

TWITTER_USERNAMES = (
    "HenryRothwell",
    "CanadaPaintings",
)

Run

Run:

python main.py

which will print the markdown for a randomly selected image from one of the configured Twitter accounts. E.g.

[![🖼](http://pbs.twimg.com/media/FigqihhXgAAQaP6.jpg)](https://twitter.com/womensart1/status/1596573028334592000)
<sub>— _Random painting (not related to content of PR)_</sub>"

which renders as:

_{— Random painting (not related to content of PR)}

A archive.json file is used to ensure the same image isn't returned more than once.