🔮 Twitter Avatar Wizardry

Track your Twitter progress right in your profile image!

The app (once deployed) automatically updates your Twitter profile image as your followers change to reflect your Twitter progress with a progress bar!

Setup

Deployment

You can deploy the app on a Deta Micro. It uses a Deta Base to cache the progress and the untouched avatar.

Note: You can enable deta auth for endpoints.

Loading secret keys

All secret keys are to be loaded as environment variables.

If using on a local machine, you can place the keys inside a .env file in the project's directory.

Example:

DETA_PROJECT_KEY=DDDDD
TWITTER_KEY=AAAAAA
TWITTER_SECRET=BBBB
ACCESS_TOKEN=CCCCC
ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET=CCCCC

Changing colors/gradients

The app uses plain gradient image files (jpeg/png). Either create your own or grab 'em from Internet.s Here's a site that lists all possible sites to get gradients from.

Alternately, you can also use solid colors. Edit your preference in config.py.

Customization

Edit config.py as necessary

What's a track mark?

The ring resets for each lapse of track_mark.

Let's say you set it to 100. Then, after reaching 100 followers it will reset back to 0 and count progress towards next 100 i.e. 200 followers.

Set Auto-Updates

After deploying to a Deta Micro, you can use CRON to run micro after every x minutes. E.g. If you want it to check for change after every 60 seconds, set it up with:

deta cron set "1 minute"

Reset Cache

Reset complete cache along with the cached avatar with:

deta run full-reset

Or reset just the followers cache to force a update:

deta run reset-count

Installing Requirements (for development)

Create a virtual environment with:

python -m venv venv

Activate it:

source ./venv/bin/activate

And run:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Debug Image Creation

To create and save image to a local directory (for debugging), run:

python local.py