SmartPoster

Application for generating social media posts automatically. In a smart way 🤓.

Check out our experimental Instagram profile with auto-generated posts (image and caption).

Instagram Profile: 📸 the.wisdom.drops

Examples

Usage

usage: main.py [-h] -t THEMES -c POST_COUNT_PER_THEME

optional arguments:
    -h, --help      show this help message and exit
    -t THEMES, --themes THEMES
                    string of themes to generate the posts about; Enter multiple ones separated by comma `,`
    -c POST_COUNT_PER_THEME, --post_count_per_theme POST_COUNT_PER_THEME
                    amount of posts per theme

Note

Posts generated according configuration set in config.yaml file.

How to setup

Requirements

Packages

• Python >= 3.8
• pipenv

Environment variables

Required

• UNSPLASH_ACCESS_KEY: Access key for Unsplash API
• UNSPLASH_SECRET_KEY: Secret key for Unsplash API
• GCP_KEY: Google Cloud key with Image Custom Search enabled
• GCX: Google context

Not implemented yet (Facebook API)

• FB_ACCESS_TOKEN: Token for interacting with Facebook Graph API (with basic privileges)
• FB_ACCESS_TOKEN_SANDBOX: Token with advanced privileges for using Marketing API features
• AD_ACCOUNT_ID: Account ID for interacting with Business Data

Note

Alternatively create .env file at root of repo for setting env vars.

Credentials

• ./credentials/gcloud.json: Place here the json file for Google Cloud Service Account.

Step-by-step

1. Setup env vars and credentials
2. Install packages

cd <REPO_ROOT_PATH>
pipenv shell
pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Run script from cli (check Usage above)