It is a simple script to take screenshots and publish on twitter and on Mastodon.

It reads an "agenda" file to find out what is happening and include it.

It attended PyConSe in a very nice way, but lacks a better code, mainly for agenda handling. Once that said, it worked quite fine.

It is running in my apartment's window and takes a picture every 15 minutes. It remains publishing for now at Twitter, but it might stop in case Elon decides to charge for API usage or something alike.

https://twitter.com/helio_weather

And it is also running on Mastodon

https://mastodon.social/@helio_weather

For a raspberrypi supporting it, I just made a call via crontab to run every 5 minutes.

Password/keys/secret stuff was left out, in a configuration file (.twitterc) following the ConfigParser format, which is mostly like:

[twitter] key = abced anotherkey = 12312313123

For mastodon, create and configure toot. It will generate the configuration file that will be used for Mastodon posts.

It was extendend to use as script to gather weather information via http://forecast.io API.

Just found it requires some extra packages to work (at the least on raspbian):

• ttf-mscorefonts-installer
• python-imaging
• uvcdynctrl
• Mastodon.py

No big ones at this moment.