A small bot, which parse some random content from wikipedia and post it on twitter

python_wikipedia-twitter-bot.py

#(Update from Python2 -> Python3)
from twython import Twython
from urllib.request import urlopen
from importlib import reload
import urllib
import sys

#reload(sys)
#sys.setdefaultencoding('utf8')

# get the keys on https://apps.twitter.com/
C_key = ""
C_secret = ""
A_token = ""
A_secret = ""

myTweet = Twython(C_key,C_secret,A_token,A_secret)
hashtag = " #RaspberryPi"

while True:
    url = 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?&action=query&format=xml&prop=extracts&generator=s$
    html = urllib.request.urlopen(url).read().decode('utf-8')
    #html = urlopen(url)
    #html = response.read()
    #html = html.encode('utf-8')
    html = html.split("preserve",1)[1]
    html = html[2:-39].replace(""", "'")

    if html.find("refers to:") == -1 and html.find("This is a list of") == -1 and html.endswith($
        break

html = html + hashtag
#print html
myTweet.update_status(status=html)