Building a Twitter Post Scheduler

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Title says it all. This should be a quickie. But you will require a valid phone number, either upon creating your account, or offering it up upon applying for a developer account, since that just how things are, now.

The idea, here, is just to get something that'll fulfill the following:

Schedule posts to twitter
Free / open source
No SaaS provider or server required

So, to do that, we'll take some shortcuts.

Download at. On Debian-based ditros, it's sudo apt install -y at. Use your distro's corresponding package manager.

Next, install tweepy. It's usually a good idea to do this in a virtual environment.

mkdir ./twitsched && cd ./twitsched
python -m venv env
source ./env/bin/activate
python -m pip install tweepy python-dotenv

I added python-dotenv because we'll need some token keys and such. It's generally bad practice to hardcode them into an app, and really annoying to pass them into environment variables manually all the time.

Log into Twitter, or make an account, go to https://developer.twitter.com/en/apply-for-access and apply for a developer account.

They want statistics or something.... so tell them we're hobbyists making bots and click whatever confirmation button shows up to continue.