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Building a YouTube-Twitter Bot, Part 3: Checking for New Video and Tweeting Link

At the end of the last post I mentioned that I might put these posts on hold for until 2021. While posts were on hold, the development was not; at least not until just before Christmas. The bot is actually live and tweeting!!! Please go follow it, it’s called @YTBotbyPS. YouTube Bot by princelySid is […]

Sidney Ochieng in Code, Python, Twitter, youtube | 25th February 2021 | 1,218 Words

Building a YouTube-Twitter Bot, Part 2: Extracting List of New Uploads

To recap, we’re building a bot that given a list of YouTube channels, it’ll tweet out snippets of a newly posted video. Below is the list of planned activities: Get list of my subscriptions from YouTube. Mark channels as music or blog and whether they’re Kenyan. For each channel get a list of recent videos […]

Sidney Ochieng in Code, Python, Twitter, youtube | 13th December 2020 | 1,493 Words

Building a YouTube-Twitter Bot, Part 1: A List of Subscriptions

To recap, I am building a bot that given a list of YouTube channels it’ll tweet out snippets of the videos when a new one is posted. In the previous post, I had a list of the things we need to do to get there: Get list of my subscriptions from YouTube. Mark channels as […]

Sidney Ochieng in Code, Python, Twitter, youtube | 5th December 2020 | 602 Words

Building a YouTube-Twitter Bot, Part 0: The Idea

One of my passions in life is finding and consuming great Kenyan content: text, video, audio; doesn’t matter much to me. In a bid to keep abreast with this content, I subscribe to all the Kenyan content I can find on YouTube. However, keeping up with all of this has been difficult. A combination of […]

Sidney Ochieng in Code, Python, Twitter, youtube | 28th November 2020 | 324 Words

The Social Media Guidelines that Stealthily Went into Effect

So the guidelines I wrote about last week went into effect, with out any real public input that I could see. I’m so mad about it. These rules are bad for the internet. Now these rules are being used to threaten administrators of Whatsapp groups, as if they have any control over what people say […]

Sidney Ochieng in Social Media, Twitter | 19th July 2017 | 164 Words

#TodaysReads: AI, Twitter, Lost Legends & More (22.5.14)

“It works like the brain.” So? Because I’m so into artificial intelligence, I’ll start with a post on it. Here we’re reminded that just because something is described as being like the brain doesn’t mean that it is important or even revolutionary. But here’s the thing: this “like the brain” label usually isn’t a lie — […]

Sidney Ochieng in #TodaysReads, AI, China, Russia, Twitter | 22nd May 2014 | 548 Words

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