Tweet instagram stories

Python script to tweet your latest instagram stories

example: https://twitter.com/plhery_stories

Get started

• Create a Twitter app with write access on https://app.twitter.com
• Install python 3.6 & ffmpeg
• Install instagram_private_api and spyder-exe's tweepy fork pip install -r requirements.txt
• Run python3 generate-instagram-cookie-jar -u your-username -p your-password This will auth you to instagram and store your cookies, which will work for 90 days
• Run python3 generate-twitter-consumer-key -k your-app-key -p your-app-secret This will show you a link to log into twitter and generate api credentials
• Replace your instagram username/id in tweet-insta-stories.py
• Run python3 tweet-insta-stories to tweet your latest stories
• Set a crontab to run this every 10 minutes
• If you want to also delete your tweets after 5 days, uncomment tweet-insta-stories.py's last line (warning: this will delete ALL you 5days+ tweets, not only your stories)

Get started (with docker)

• Create a Twitter app with write access on https://app.twitter.com
• Replace your instagram username/id in tweet-insta-stories.py
• If you want to also delete your tweets after 5 days, uncomment tweet-insta-stories.py's last line (warning: this will delete ALL you 5days+ tweets, not only your stories)
• Build the docker image docker build . -t story2tweet
• Run docker run -v ./settings:/app/settings story2tweet generate-instagram-cookie-jar.py -u your-username -p your-password This will auth you to instagram and store your cookies, which will work for 90 days
• Run docker run -v ./settings:/app/settings -it story2tweet generate-twitter-consumer-key -k your-app-key -p your-app-secret This will show you a link to log into twitter and generate api credentials
• Run docker run -v ./settings:/app/settings story2tweet to tweet your latest stories
• You can use tasker to run this every 10 minutes

TODO

• Run this in a serverless (e.g lambda) environment (ffmpeg may be a problem)
• Use a real DB
• Improve video upload behaviour

##Licence

TweetInstaStories was released under Apache License 2.0