Send tweet - OpenFaaS function

Description

This is an OpenFaaS function written in Python that makes use of the tweepy library to send a tweet from your Twitter account.

Set up

1. You will need to specify your Twitter app environment variables in the send-tweet.yml file.

  consumer_key: ""
  consumer_secret: ""
  access_token: ""
  access_token_secret: ""

If you do not have a Twitter App you can create one here.

2. In the same file, you must set the gateway IP which should be your Raspberry Pi IP address.

gateway: http://<RASPBERRY_IP_ADDR>:8080

Build the function

faas-cli build -f ./send-tweet.yml

Upload the function to a remote registry (optional)

Note: before pushing to the Docker Hub, please go to the send-tweet.yml file and in the image property change the value from send-tweet to include your Docker Hub account - i.e. felipecruz/send-tweet

faas-cli push -f ./send-tweet.yml

Deploy the function

faas-cli deploy -f ./send-tweet.yml