HeroTwitter

Python API to take GoPro picture and upload to Twitter.

Description

This program can be used to take GoPro pictures and automatically upload it to a Twitter account. The GoPro must be connected via WiFi.

How it works

There are three modules:

• gopro.py: Controls GoPro device remotely, setup and download taken photos to local device, all through the Wifi connection.
• twitter.py: Upload ficture files to Twitter.
• herotwitter.py: Joins the previews modules and provides the final funcionality: take photo and upload it to Twitter.

Setup

First, download the code:

git clone https://github.com/rodolfosantos/HeroTwitter.git && cd HeroTwitter

Install the following dependencies: requests, wget, and tweepy. Execute this to install them on your machine:

sudo pip install requests
sudo pip install wget
sudo pip install tweepy

Set your Twitter account consumer keys and access tokens, used for OAuth, into twitter.py module:

consumer_key = ''
consumer_secret = ''
access_token = ''
access_token_secret = ''

Example

To use this library, your computer should be connected to Internet via Ethernet, and sould be connected to GoPro via Wifi interface.

Then execute python interpreter into HeroTwitter folder:

$ python
>>> import herotwitter

>>> herotwitter.takePhotoAndUpload("Photo uploaded with https://github.com/rodolfosantos/HeroTwitter")

Change History

This project uses semantic versioning.

v0.1.0 - 2015/06/24

• Initial release