Latest News X(formally known as Twitter) Bot with Python

Part 2: Automation

Introduction

This is part two of our two-part series on creating a news bot for X, formerly known as Twitter. The first part illustrated the creation of the bot, including authenticating X API, creating an application, and writing the initial code that formatted the data to post on X. This part will emphasize the automation of the news bot to ensure it presents up-to-date daily news without manual intervention.

The goal of this project is to automate the news bot created in Part 1 using GitHub Actions, which allows us to schedule and run our bot at specific times throughout the day. By the end of this tutorial, you will have the ability to create an automated Python script that will run in the morning, afternoon, evening, and night.

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GitHub Action

GitHub Actions is directly connected to all created GitHub repositories. This powerful tool automates software workflows directly in the GitHub repository. We will use GitHub Actions to schedule our bot to run multiple times a day.

Using GitHub Actions for Automation

A new workflow file is created to set up the foundation of GitHub Actions, which is connected to the repository. This file is named actions.yml.

name: automate twitter_bot.py