Schedule Tweet

Automated tweet scheduling using TweetDeck. Uses Selenium to spawn a browser, log in to TweetDeck with your credentials, and schedule a tweet on your behalf by clicking on things in the app.

Installation

Install geckodriver. On macOS with Homebrew you can use brew install geckodriver. Then...

$ pip install schedule_tweet

Only Python 3.6 and higher is supported.

Usage

>>> import os
>>> from datetime import datetime, timedelta
>>>
>>> import schedule_tweet
>>>
>>> username = 'schedule_tw'
>>> password = os.getenv('PASSWORD')
>>> now_dt = datetime.now()
>>>
>>> with schedule_tweet.session(username, password) as session:
...     dt = now_dt + timedelta(minutes=2)
...     session.tweet(dt, f'First Tweet 🚀 {dt.isoformat()}')
...
...     dt = now_dt + timedelta(minutes=3)
...     session.tweet(dt, f'Second Tweet 💥 {dt.isoformat()}')

Multiple Accounts

If you have multiple accounts in your TweetDeck, you can specify the account to tweet from by session.tweet(dt, text, username='different_account'). By default the tweet gets sent from the initial username.

Images

Not supported yet. Contribute! This could help you. Note that scheduled tweets can have only one image (TweetDeck limitation).

Tests

Obviously, TweetDeck authors can change anything anytime, which may or may not break this tool. That's why it is tested by a regular nightly Travis CI build. If it's able to schedule a tweet in the sample @schedule_tw account, it assumes the tool still works and the build will pass. If the build badge is red, it means the tool doesn't work anymore and it needs to be updated.

The same tests run every time there is any change on the master branch.

Maintenance

I made the library to itch my own scratch. If it gets broken, there is some probability I'll need to use it, I'll fix it, and I'll release a new version. Otherwise I provide no support as I don't really have time to do proper maintenance of the project. I'll gladly review and accept Pull Requests though.

Why

Twitter doesn't provide tweets scheduling in their API. It is provided only as a feature of TweetDeck, their advanced official client. Unlike other clients which support tweets scheduling, TweetDeck is free of charge, it is an official tool made by Twitter themselves, and it supports teams.

The schedule-tweet tool was originally built to save precious volunteering time of the PyCon CZ social media team.