Open Web Intent to Tweet #100DaysOfCode Progress

A friend and I, were talking about a problem he had when he was doing #100DaysOfCode Challenge. After a couple of days he’d forget to tweet his progress. He asked me if there is a way to open twitter and post his progress in a specific time. I came with the idea of using NodeJs and create a script and a cron job in Linux to open tweeter in a specific time but we leave that project forgotten.

3 months later I made a script but using python. Here is what it does:

1 - It loads a .json file containing the counter representing your days in the challenge, If it doesn’t exit, It’ll create a new one and started with 1.

2- Gets current date using datetime module

3- creates a URL containing the actual date, #100DaysOfCode hashtag,the current day in the challenge and the increase in one for the next day. Using webbrowser module, opens a web intent in your default browser.


"""Opens a new Web Intent from Twitter to tweet your #100Daysofcode progress"""

import webbrowser 
from datetime import datetime
import os
import json

def save_day_count(file,count):
#Saves count for the next day
    try:
        with open(file,"w") as file_json:
            json.dump(count,file_json)
    except Exception as e:
        print(e)

def getting_day_count(file):
        #Check if file with current day exist
    if os.path.isfile(file):
        try:
            with open(file) as f_obj:
                #loads current day
                days = json.load(f_obj)
        except FileNotFoundError as ex :
                print(ex)
        else:   
        #Incriases one and saves for the next day
            days += 1
            save_day_count(file,days)
            return days    
    else:
        #Creates a new file if it doesn't exist and starts the counter in 1
        days = 1
        save_day_count(file,days)
        return days


days = getting_day_count("counter.json")
date = str(datetime.now().date()) #Gets current date
url = "https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?hashtags=100DaysofCode%0A" + date + "[Day " +  str(days) +"]"
webbrowser.open_new_tab(url)

If you are like me, you don't have to forget again to tweet your progress

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