neshjesse/flask-socialmedia-automation

Social Media automation application built on Flask. Uses instagrapi to automate posting at scheduled times, and allows user to make AI generated posts. Twitter API is used in order to allow the user to tweet from the site. Utilizes SQLAlchemy for the login, registration process and database, and includes email verification and forgot password.

AI Social Media Automation

Features

• Automatic and regularly scheduled AI-generated social media posts:
  • Upload images/enter text and schedule posts for Instagram or Twitter.
  • Use OpenAI API to generate images with DALL-E or tweets with GPT-3.5 Turbo.
  • Schedule recurring posts or tweets with AI-generated content.
  • Connect to Instagram and quickly post AI generated images based on your prompt.
  • Send emails from your Gmail account with automated scheduling.
  • Scheduled AI Generated news posting option using NewsAPI for daily top headlines.

Upcoming Features

• Improved text overlay on images posted to Instagram.
• Access to external live data for post creation.

Setup Instructions

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/SakethSripada/Flask-SocialMedia-Automation.git

2. Obtain API Keys and Credentials:

   • https://developer.twitter.com/en/portal/dashboard
   • https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833?hl=en
   • https://platform.openai.com/
   • https://newsapi.org/

3. Create a 'secret.py' file and add values for the below variables:

    SECRET_KEY = 'your_secret_key' # Flask secret
    MAIL_SERVER = "smtp.gmail.com" 
    MAIL_PORT = 587
    MAIL_USERNAME = "your_email_address"
    MAIL_PASSWORD = "your_app_password" # Go to google account and set up App password
    MAIL_DEFAULT_SENDER = ("NoReply SM Automation", "your_email_address")
    API_KEY = "your_openai_api_key"
    TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY = "your_twitter_consumer_key"
    TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET = "your_twitter_consumer_secret"
    BEARER_KEY = "your_twitter_bearer_key"
    ACCESS_TOKEN = "your_twitter_access_token"
    ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET = "your_twitter_access_token_secret"
    OAUTH_CLIENT_ID = "your_oauth_client_id"
    OAUTH_CLIENT_SECRET = "your_oauth_client_secret"
    NEWS_API_KEY = "your_news_api_key"

4. Install the required packages:

   pip install -r requirements.txt

5. Set up the Database:

   flask db init
   flask db migrate -m "Initial migration."
   flask db upgrade

6. Run application:

   flask run

Additional Notes and Commands:

• Whenever you make changes to the database, run:

  flask db migrate -m "migration message"

• And then to update the database with the changes, run:

  flask db upgrade

• To Delete All Users, run:

  flask delete-all-users

• To Delete Specific Users, run:

  flask delete-users user1,user2,user3

• To List All Users, run:

  flask list-users