Twitter Bot Challenge - archive

What's next?

If you are ready with your branch - create a pull request and assign it to @sofiasedlova and @darknessest for review. As soon as we get a good enough solution from a candidate, we start the interviewing process.

Github Secrets for Actions

Description

For this challenge you have a Authentication Tokens (Access Token and Secret) and Consumer Keys (API Key and Secret), so you can only use OAuth 1.0a for authentication.

Authentication Tokens are stored in TW_ACCESS_TOKEN and TW_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET respectivelly.

Consumer Keys are stored in TW_CONSUMER_KEY and TW_CONSUMER_KEY_SECRET respectively.

The MongoDB credentials are stored in MONGODB_USER and MONGODB_PASSWORD, also the cluster's address is stored in MONGO_DB_ADDRESS.

Make sure you are using the latest PyMongo with srv support, you can install it with:

pip install -U 'pymongo[srv]'

You can find a Github Action template here, please make sure you copy it to your branch and change the name of the branch in the yaml file. This will help the action's execution.

Usage

To pass Github Secrets to your action, you need to specify the secrets and their corresponding names like following:

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:

      - name: Run Python Code
        env:
          MONGODB_USER: ${{ secrets.MONGODB_USER }}
          TW_BEARER_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.TW_BEARER_TOKEN }}
        run: |
            python3 main.py

You can access environment variables in Python like that:

import os

bearer_token = os.environ["TW_BEARER_TOKEN"]

URI for connecting to the MongoDB cluster can be constructed in the following way:

from pymongo import MongoClient

user = os.environ["MONGODB_USER"]
password = os.environ["MONGODB_PASSWORD"]
address = os.environ["MONGO_DB_ADDRESS"]

uri = f"mongodb+srv://{user}:{password}@{address}"
client = MongoClient(uri)