Build & Deploy A Python Web App To Automate Twitter | Flask, Heroku, Twitter API & Google Sheets API

Build & Deploy a Python web app to schedule Tweets. I'm using Flask, Heroku, the Twitter API, and Google Sheets API for this. You can watch how I build this app step by step from zero to deployment!

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Build & Deploy a Python web app to schedule Tweets. I'm using Flask, Heroku, the Twitter API, and Google Sheets API for this. You can watch how I build this app step by step from zero to deployment! The app can be hosted for free then.

You can find the starting point for this tutorial on GitHub.

Technology we will be using¶

• Flask
• Heroku
• Tweepy
• gspread

Flask Quickstart:¶

Create virtual env¶

python3 -m venv venv
Activate (on Mac):
. venv/bin/activate

pip install Flask
export FLASK_APP=app/main.py
flask run

Heroku start¶

heroku login -i
heroku create your_app_name

add config vars:

heroku config:set CONSUMER_KEY=xxx
heroku config:set CONSUMER_SECRET=xxx
heroku config:set ACCESS_TOKEN=xxx
heroku config:set ACCESS_SECRET=xxx
heroku config:set INTERVAL=1200
heroku config:set DEBUG=0

Scale worker:

heroku ps:scale worker=1

Test locally:

heroku local

Push to Heroku:

git init
heroku git:remote -a your_app_name
git add .
git commit -m "initial commit"
git push heroku master

and later your secret.json:

git checkout -b secret-branch
  --> remove secret.json from *.gitignore* on new branch
git add .
git commit -m "add credentials"
git push heroku secret-branch:master