nahim-name

About

Tracks when @nah_im_abdulla changes his screen name and tweets it out on @NahimName.

Files

• name.txt saves the current name and rewrites when name is changed.
• script.py has the script for the twitter bot.
• To run the script, get API access tokens from https://developer.twitter.com/en/apps and save it in a file twittercreds.py as follows:

api_key = "xxxxxxxx"
api_secret = "xxXXXx"
access_token = "xxxx"
access_secret = "xxXXX

Misc

Every Twitter user has a unique ID that remains constant even after username changes. Use this https://tweeterid.com/ to find ID for any username. This is used to extract information about a user from Twitter using the Twitter API (such as screen name in this case)

The script is scheduled to run every 15 minutes using Windows Task Scheduler.