Check Twitter update for romantic messages (@romanticmsgs) and SMS them to your loved ones

• Tweepy to pull message from Twitter (python-twitter does not work when hosted on Google App Engine)
• Twilio to send SMS message
• Script is hosted on Google App Engine with a cron job

1. Follow this quick guide to get Twitter's API key

1. Follow this quick guide on how to sign up and use Twilio (Ctrl-F "Signing up for a Twilio Account")
2. The trial Twilio account will preface your SMS with "Sent from trial account". You can pay (a little) to remove this restriction

1. In this folder, write down the credentials from your Twitter and Twilio account. (My own passwords.py is included in .gitignore so that it doesn't show up on github.)
2. Like so

# Twitter API credentials
consumer_key = 'your_own_credentials'
consumer_secret = 'your_own_credentials'
access_token = 'your_own_credentials'
access_token_secret = 'your_own_credentials'

# Twilio API credentials
ACCOUNT_SID = 'your_own_credentials'
AUTH_TOKEN = 'your_own_credentials'

# Twilio phone number
myTwilioNumber = '+18885553333'
myCellPhone = '+12229993333'

1. Follow the Google App Engine (GAE)'s Python tutorial to download GAE Python SDK
2. Follow GAE's tutorial on how to upload your application. TL;DR: appcfg.py -A PROJECT_NAME update automated-message
3. Go to http://console.developers.google.com to monitor your application

1. Change the Twitter source: In messenger.py, change screen_name = 'romanticmsgs'screen_name = 'romanticmsgs' to use any other Twitter user as source
2. Change the frequency of checking Twitter for updates in cron.yaml. See GAE's docs on cron's syntax
3. Change the hours NOT to send message: In messenger.py > # Does not send during sleep hours

Failed to send request: The Socket API will be enabled for this application once billing has been enabled in the admin console.

We need to enable billing for our GAE's app for Tweepy and Twilio API to work, as follows. In http://console.developers.google.com,

• go to Settings (the cog symbol, top right) > Billing Accounts to add payment methods to your GAE account
• go to Settings > Project Billing Settings to enable billing for this particular project