Soviet Art Bot v.20

Latest Updates:

• Fixing the html escape issue where apostrophes get rendered into hideous HTML representations by adding some unescapes
• Adding some 12-factor principles by not storing my Twitter credentials in the app, but in SSM instead and pulling them in through Travis-CI

A bot that finds socialist realism paintings and tweets them out. For the official webpage, check out here.

To see it in action, follow @SovietArtBot

Why Soviet Art Bot

The TL;DR: Putting art on Twitter is fun and a great way to learn more about AWS.

To read a really long post on Soviet Art Bot, click here.

Architecture

Low-Level

Installation

In progress.

Contributing

It's really the alpha Wild Wild West stages of this project so I don't have any specific guidelines. That said, if you see something, say something. Pull requests welcome.