#!/usr/bin/env python3 import tweepy from dotenv import load_dotenv import os import random load_dotenv() def tweet(): lines = open('tweets.txt').read().splitlines() new_tweet = random.choice(lines) if find_dup(new_tweet): tweet() else: return new_tweet def find_dup(tweet): with open('tweets.log', 'rt') as f: tweets = f.readlines() for line in tweets: if line.__contains__(tweet): return True else: return False # Authenticate to Twitter auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(os.getenv("APIKEY"), os.getenv("APISECRET")) auth.set_access_token(os.getenv("TOKEN"), os.getenv("TOKENSECRET")) # Create API object api = tweepy.API(auth) # Create a tweet new_tweet = tweet() if find_dup(new_tweet): new_tweet = tweet() api.update_status(new_tweet) # log to file file = open('tweets.log', 'a') file.write(new_tweet + "\n")