How parambhatia2004/twitter-news-bot works
This is a small scheduled-style news-to-Twitter bot, but the sampled script invokes its workflow immediately when run. It fetches BBC RSS headlines, paraphrases them with a pretrained Pegasus model, stores formatted headline/source pairs in a local text file, and posts the next pair with a timestamp to Twitter. A counter file controls when headlines are refreshed; the excerpt shows file operations but does not establish how hosting or scheduling launches the script. The graph focuses on this runtime path and its external services.
Main entry points: News-scraper.py Bot script · data.txt Headline queue
Components 7
News publishing workflow
- Bot script
News-scraper.py - Headline fetch
News-scraper.py
Local state
- Headline queue
data.txt - Run counter
News-scraper.py
External services
- BBC RSS feed
- Pegasus paraphraser
- Twitter API
Connections 6
- Bot script → Headline fetch: calls
News-scraper.py - Headline fetch → BBC RSS feed: fetches RSS
News-scraper.py - Bot script → Pegasus paraphraser: loads and generates
News-scraper.py - Bot script → Headline queue: writes and reads
News-scraper.py - Bot script → Run counter: increments and resets
News-scraper.py - Bot script → Twitter API: posts status
News-scraper.py