prettier.py

"""
Cute twitter bot to twitter pretty flickr photos and unicode characters.
"""

import flickr, random, urllib
from twitter import Twitter

flickr.API_KEY = 'FILL ME IN'

username = 'prettier'
password = 'FILL ME IN'

chars = ['&#x2764', '&#x263c', '&#x2600', '&#x2606', '&#x2605', '&#x2766',
         '&#x2741', '&#x2740', '&#x273f', '&#x273e', '&#x273d', '&#x273a',
         '&#x2735', '&#x263a', '&#x263b', '&#x266c', '&#x266b', '&#x266a']

# pick a flickr photo from the 20 most interesting photos right now
photo = random.choice(flickr.interestingness()[20:])
url = photo.getURL(urlType='source')

print "picked photo %s" % url

# make a tinyurl for it
tu = urllib.urlopen('http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=%s' % url).read()

# pick some cute unicode characters to toss in there
tweet = ' '.join([random.choice(chars) for _ in range(4)] + [tu])

print "tweeting '%s'" % tweet

twitter = Twitter(username, password)
twitter.statuses.update(status=tweet)