metal-friday

Metal Friday! Fuck yes!

This bot:

• retrieves a list of albums
• creates a video with the covers of the albums and adds some cool music to it
• tweets it
• instagrams it

Environment variables

Some env vars can be provided in an .env file:

APP_NAME=metal-friday
LOGS_FOLDER_PATH=logs

INPUT_FOLDER_PATH=input
OUTPUT_FOLDER_PATH=output
FONTS_PATH=fonts

TWITTER_POST=1
INSTAGRAM_POST=1

TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY=<consumer key>
TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET=<consumer secret>
TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN=<access token>
TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET=<access token secret>

IG_USERNAME=<username>
IG_PASSWORD=<password>

Considerations

• 8 albums max, as Twitter won't allow videos longer than 30s
• folder format for every Metal Friday: YYYYMMdd
• check the example_input_folder to see how the list of albums and covers must be passed:
  • list format: band_twitter_user | band name | album name for each entry
  • cover must be jpeg, png or webp