In this project we will write two Django custom commands, based on the following specifications.
This command will use the Twitter RESTful API to consume user's Tweets and will load them into the Tweet model in our application.
A username argument must be specified with the username that wants to be imported. A second optional argument --count might be specified to limit the amout of Tweets that will be imported.
Make sure you configure the Twitter API customer Key and Secret in order to be able to consume the API. You will probably need to go to the Twitter Apps page (https://apps.twitter.com/), and either register a new app, or use the keys from an application you already have. There are two special settings you will need to complete:
CONSUMER_KEY = "YOUR_CUSTOMER_KEY"
CONSUMER_SECRET = "YOUR_CUSTOMER_SECRET"
Instead of requesting the Twitter API manually, you will probably want to take a look at the TweetPy library that will make your life easier: http://www.tweepy.org/
Example of usage:
$ django-admin loadtweets rmotr_com --count=99
This commands generates a report of how many Tweets per user we have in our Tweet model.
Two --from_date and --to_date optional arguments can be specified to limit the set of Tweets.
The command must send an email with a list of <username>: <tweet-counter>, limited to given datetime rage if it's provided.
Example of usage:
$ django-admin tweetsreport --from_date 2015-12-30 --to_date 2016-03-30
The tweetsreport command must be automatized to be executed only during weekends (Saturday and Sunday) at 21:00. For that you must write a CRON job rule that fulfills this requirement.