Team Radio to Twitter Bot

This project fetches the latest Formula 1 team radio recordings, converts the audio to text using Google's Speech Recognition API, and posts the transcribed message to Twitter.

Features

• Fetches the latest team radio data from the OpenF1 API.
• Downloads the latest team radio recording.
• Converts the audio from MP3 to WAV format.
• Uses Google's Speech Recognition API to transcribe the audio.
• Posts the transcribed message to Twitter with driver and team information.

Requirements

• Python 3.6+
• pydub
• SpeechRecognition
• requests
• tweepy
• dotenv

Installation

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/yourusername/team-radio-to-twitter.git
   cd team-radio-to-twitter

2. Create and activate a virtual environment (optional but recommended):

   python -m venv env
   source env/bin/activate  # On Windows use `env\Scripts\activate`

3. Install the required packages:

   pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Set up environment variables: Create a .env file in the root of the project and add your Twitter API credentials:

   CONSUMER_KEY=your_consumer_key
   CONSUMER_SECRET=your_consumer_secret
   ACCESS_TOKEN=your_access_token
   ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET=your_access_token_secret
   

Usage

1. Run the script:

   python main.py

Project Structure

• main.py: Contains the main logic for fetching, processing, and posting the team radio data.
• helpers/twitter.py: Contains the helper function post_tweet for posting tweets using Tweepy.
• audio_files/: Directory where audio files are temporarily stored.